Season 2: BONUS REVIEW: “MLP: FIM: Season 5: Episode 11: “Party Pooped”

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING YOU’RE ABOUT TO SEE MAY CONTAIN SOME Y’KNOW, SPOILERS!!! BE SURE TO TURN BACK IF YOU HAVEN’T, Y’KNOW WHAT I’M SAYING!!!

-We Now Join Our Regularly Scheduled Review Already in Progress-

Hello, I’m The Detective Librarian and you may already think that Season 2 is finally over on my blog. Sadly, we have a “BONUS REVIEW” to do. This time, on the latest episode of Season 5 of “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”. Please note that I was supposed to do it on the day it aired, but I got caught up on a different review, but, it’s finally time to share my thoughts on the latest episode, titled “Party Pooped”, which aired on June 27, 2015. As you can probably tell, it focuses on everyone’s favorite, party-animal, crazy, and serial killer member of the Mane Six, Pinkie Pie! Well, it’s been a while since we had Pinkie Pie as the main character of an episode, but who cares, it’s a new episode, which she once again gets to herself, Yaay! Now, let’s see how crazy Pinkie will be once again, by taking a look at “Party Pooped”.

We start off this episode in Twilight Sparkle Sparkle Sparkle’s castle with a bunch of food and decorations because of a new Friendship Summit coming, which is about the Mane Six being friends with a bunch of yaks from a location called Yakyakistan. Okay, it may sound like a racist or an Equestrian version of countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, since they’re filled with terrorist countries, no offense. But I digress, the reason why yaks are visiting Ponyville is because the border between Equestria and Yakyakistan hasn’t opened for hundreds of years (or “moons”, if you will) and please note that Yakyakistan is located South of the Crystal Mountains, which is located near The Crystal Empire. After we hear those facts, Twilight starts to get nervous/crazy over being friends over a Yakyakistan prince named Rutherford, or as Pinkie Pie would say “nervouscited”! Well, something tells me that this episode will be a sequel to the Season 2 episode, “Lesson Zero”, when Twilight went insane over not getting a friendship problem to report to Princess Celestia, which went something like this:

Anyways, Prince Rutherford and the Yaks arrive at Twilight’s castle and are greeted warmly. Twilight offers them Yakyakistan food that they made for the Yaks, but it doesn’t taste or smell like the way the Yaks like it back at Yakyakistan. Because they get angry when things do go perfectly, the Yaks begin to destroy/smash the decorations and the rest of Twilight’s castle. Well, let’s just hope they don’t go into a frenzy that destroys a bad video game, movie, or TV show that would be something either me or Nostalgia Critic would do if we hated a film, video game, or a TV show so much like this:

After all, he IS one of the angriest reviewers or critics you’ve known and seen, just like his rival/enemy, “The Angry Video Game Nerd”. But I digress, after the destruction the Yaks created, our heroes decide to repair the damage that had been done to the castle and try to make the Yaks feel home at Ponyville in the Summit/Friendship Party, such as create haybeds at Sweet Apple Acres, use Fluttershy’s animals as yaks, trying to make the same fabric as seen back in Yakyakistan, and have the same type of snow back in you-know-where. However, as try as they might, the Yaks still get angry and destroy EVERYTHING that isn’t perfect for them. Geesh, what a bunch of hot-heads if you ask me. Later, the Mane Six discuss on the current progress of the Summit so far at the Map, but they go “COMPLETELY CRAAAAAAAAAAAZYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Meanwhile, Pinkie explains insanely to Gummy on how her friends are struggling to make the Yaks feel like Yakyakistan, while she’s at her room at Sugarcube Corner. After she says that she might have to go ALL THE WAY TO YAKYAKISTAN, JUST TO GO AND GET THE THINGS NEEDED FOR THE FRIENDSHIP SUMMIT, Gummy puts his tongue on Pinkie’s mouth and guess what?

Pinkie magically agrees to go ALL THE WAY TO YAKYAKISTAN to get those supplies to make the Yaks feel like Ponyville is their home. Outside Sugar Cube Corner, Twilight is giving the Yaks a tour of Ponyville and tries to find Pinkie, since she’s the most well-known party-pony, to find out on how everything is going for the party. However, she soon finds that Pinkie’s gone and decides to send a search party to find her, but to no avail. However, she receives a note from Pinkie, which is about her quest to go to Yakyakistan, in order to do what I explained earlier. However, things go from bad to worse when she finds out that the Yaks are about to eat the cake from one of the bakers, Mrs. Cake, made and just as she was about to stop them from eating it, it was too late.

The Yaks eat the cake and (of course) start smashing it up. Then, we cut to the next scene, which involves Pinkie Pie on the train to The Crystal Empire, beginning her quest to Yakyakistan. However, the train stops at Dodge Junction (a cherry village in the desert from Season 2 episode, “The Last Roundup”) due to a flock of sheep on the tracks. This reminds me of a usual episode of “Thomas & Friends”, except that it doesn’t involve Daisy the Diesel Railcar encountering a bull named Champion, when she thought that she could handle bulls, even though she’s feeble–

DAISY THE DIESEL RAILCAR: Feeble? FEEBLE?!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Oh yeah, sorry.

Anyways, Pinkie encounters Cherry Jubilee (from again, “The Last Roundup”), who was basically leaving the bathroom shack, which reminds me of the scene from “The Last Roundup”, when Pinkie needed the restroom, until Applejack went out in a huff. So, Pinkie asks Jubilee for her help and gets her only means of transportation so far, since Jubilee is going North of The Crystal Empire as well, which is a carriage with stallions with hats on their heads that are controlling the carriage, that have basically been very exhausted due to counting 400 cherries, along with Jubilee. As they leave Dodge Junction, Pinkie’s quest continues and danger arises when Jubilee falls asleep, along with those stallions and they are heading towards the edge of a cliff that lays above a deep ravine below. Clearly, this is like Timothy the Ghost Train’s death, except that Timothy isn’t involved in this and he doesn’t show his demonic form in this episode. Pinkie tries to stop the carriage from crashing into the ravine below, but it luckily wakes up Jubilee and the others, but the cliff easily breaks, like in a “Roadrunner Cartoon” from “Looney Tunes”, causing Pinkie and the carriage to fall into the ravine below.

Meanwhile, we see more montages of Twilight trying to impress the Yaks, by having Spike playing the piano, that pleases the Yaks, until we find out that Spike wasn’t really playing the piano and it was playing on it’s own. So yeah, the Yaks destroy the piano as well and want the Friendship Party to begin immediately, leave right now, and declare war as well. But things get even more worse when we see Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash attempting to create their own party, now the Yaks’ war between them and the Mane Six will have to commence without anything preventing it. Back with Pinkie, it’s revealed that the Wonderbolts (by a huge coincidence) saved her and the carriage, brought them to Manehattan, and we get a reference from “The Beatles” that goes like this:

So yeah, Pinkie joins the Beatles, temporarily, and it would’ve been funnier if we had Ringo Starr speak, instead of making a cameo as a background character. So, Cadence randomly pops up and warns Pinkie that she’s reached the Northern Boundary of the Crystal Empire, which leads to Yakyakistan, and nopony has made it out unscathed, everytime he or she tries to climb it. Well, because of Cadence’s short appearance, it raises the question of why Shining Armor didn’t even appear in this scene anyway? After all, he IS part of the Crystal Empire and Cadence’s wife, besides, it’s been a while since we last saw him and it’s high time Shining gets more screentime and has more info about his character and backstory, even though I decided to create his own backstory in my fan-fic, “Shining Armor & the Shadow Kingdom”. Well, it could be just a theory of Shining’s past and I won’t spoil it for you, if you haven’t read it yet and I’ll give you the links to the various chapters of my fan-fic on my blog at the end of this review.

Anyways, back in Ponyville, Twilight and her friends have realized that they created way too much pressure on Pinkie and they’ve let everybody down and fall into major despair, because of their failure to make friends with the Yaks, until Twilight accidentally presses a ice cream-like switch that opens a trapdoor under them into a dark room. Meanwhile, Pinkie begins braving her way through the snow and encounters a yeti, monkey-like snow leopard in a cave next to her. The snow leopard attacks her and Pinkie runs away from it and encounters (again, by huge coincidence) a small yak with a sleigh that leads to Yakyakistan. As she’s about to step off the sleigh and go into Yakyakistan, the cliff under Pinkie and the sleigh collapses and sends her ALL THE WAY BACK TO PONYVILLE (UNREALISTICALLY)!!! Meanwhile, the rest of Twilight’s friends find themselves in a dark room, which is revealed to be Pinkie Pie’s Party Cave, like the Bat-Cave in “Batman”.

The Party Cave includes all sorts of files of parties Pinkie put up and other ponies or other animals she met or knows, while learning about Twilight’s fear of quesadillas because “They’re just so. *Ugh* cheesy.” *Ba Dum Tsh!*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: HEH, NO WONDER THIS FOOD’S SO “CHEESY”!:

So, Pinkie arrives back to where she started with disappointment that she never succeeded in her quest to Yakyakistan. However, she cheers up when she overhears her friends congratulating her on how much hard work she’s done over the years and drops by in the Party Cave, still feeling like she’s a failure over her failed quest. But, she changes her mind when her friends praise her hard work and just then, Pinkie gets an idea to make this party rock. Because the train to Ponyville is stuck due to that flock of sheep, the Yaks are left stranded in Ponyville, having to partake in the Friendship Party. The Friendship Party turns into a festival because the Mane Six realized that every time they tried to make the party a Yakyakistan tradition, they failed in doing so, making everything worse. Even, Celestia is there too and the Yaks are impressed over the Party and cancel the war declaration as a result. The episode ends with Celestia being impressed over Twilight and her friends’ performance over the party and having their new friend, Prince Rutherford, hug Pinkie Pie extremely hard! (Awkward)

Guys, this episode is not the greatest, it’s decent. Although, the jokes are funny and my favorite joke is definitely the Beatles joke because ya gotta love the Beatles for how popular their songs were back in the 1960’s and it would’ve been more funnier if Pinkie just did a parody of the “Yellow Submarine” song and made it titled the “Pink Submarine”. As for the plot itself, it moves along a little bit slowly and it really has a cheap way of bringing back old characters we haven’t seen in a long time or a while such as Cadence and Cherry Jubilee. Speaking of, the new characters, the Yaks, were okay and I find it bland that all they did was just smash things when things go badly, since we need a personality MUCH MORE THAN THAT AND IT FEELS LIKE ANOTHER CHEAP WAY TO MAKE MORE TOYS, JUST LIKE WHAT HIT ENTERTAINMENT WOULD DO!!! Although, the animation is still good as always and I’m still wondering after Cadence’s appearance, “Does Hasbro prefer Cadence better than Shining Armor, after the events of ‘A Canterlot Wedding’?”

Besides, Shining Armor NEEDS more screentime and I really want him back, even though I still hold a grudge against him, it still would be nice to have him back every once in a while, since he’s sort of good and bad. All in all, I’d say this episode is a hit or miss and I would’ve expected more from it, even if it’s slightly better than the previous one, but at least the next episode will pick off Twilight’s old friends from the first episode of the series, but that’s another story. On a scale of a one to ten, I’d say this episode is a 5/10, it could’ve been better. Now, since I mentioned Shining getting his own backstory in “Shining Armor & the Shadow Kingdom”, I’ll be showing you the links to various chapters of the story and the full version of it right now, but remember, the following you’re about to see contains some scenes that may be unsuitable for younger audiences, such as intense action, dark/scary scenes, ectetera, so please read at your own discretion:

LINK TO CHAPTER 1: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-1-feeling-unlucky/

LINK TO CHAPTER 2: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/05/23/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-2-the-legend-of-king-mephiles/

LINK TO CHAPTER 3: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/05/24/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-3-chrysalis-secret/

LINK TO CHAPTER 4: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-4-journey-through-galloping-gorge/

LINK TO CHAPTER 5: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-5-an-alone-journey/

LINK TO CHAPTER 6: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-6-the-truth-revealed/

LINK TO CHAPTER 7: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-7-escape-from-the-shadow-kingdom/

LINK TO CHAPTER 8: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-8-invasion-of-the-shadow-kingdom/

LINK TO CHAPTER 9: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-9-the-final-showdown/

LINK TO THE 10TH AND FINAL CHAPTER: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-the-10th-and-final-chapter-the-memorial-of-the-shadow-kingdom/

LINK TO THE FULL STORY: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/category/shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-full-story/

So, be sure to check it out if you haven’t and tell me what you think of “Shining Armor & the Shadow Kingdom” and the episode down in the comments below. And as always, I’m The Detective Librarian and be sure to look out for the Season 3 premiere of reviews on my blog later this week! Good-night, everybody!

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“The Time Travelers Trilogy” The 3rd and Final Part: Season 2 Finale: Review #28: “Thomas & Friends: Calling All Engines”

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING YOU’RE ABOUT TO SEE MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS!!! TURN BACK IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THIS HORRENDOUS SPECIAL YET!!!!!!!!

-We Now Join Our Regularly Scheduled Review Already in Progress-

PREVIOUSLY ON “THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN”:

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Now, Frankie, will you PLEASE let me go, already?!

FRANKIE HECK: But first, we must take you to our boss!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: What?! NO! YOU TRICKED ME!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): GREAT SCOTT, FRANKIE MUST HAVE KIDNAPPED ME FROM THE PAST!! If they kill him, I’ll no longer exist in the face of time and all of you and the Time Travelers might not exist!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Ugh. Where am I?

THE REVIEW MASTER (FUTURE): Where you are, Detective is with me again!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: THE REVIEW MASTER!! WHY DID YOU BRING ME HERE?!

THE REVIEW MASTER (FUTURE): I brought you here so that YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE WON’T EVER EXIST IN YOUR OWN TIME!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

-Now, Onto Our Story-

THE REVIEW MASTER (FUTURE): Well, this looks familiar. Hmmm…

THE REVIEW MASTER (PRESENT): It’s familiar because this reminds me when I first met my arch-nemesis, “The Detective Librarian”, 50 years ago.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: The present AND the future Review Master?! You two are partners?! I should’ve known you two were working together and were behind all this. After all, we’ve fought multiple times and even created a war between each other. Besides, you formed “The Hunters” in order to hunt me down and be better than me! You even said itself when you first captured me!

THE REVIEW MASTER (PRESENT): That’s right, I still remember it like it was just yesterday! You and me, about to destroy you, like you were supposed to after all this time.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Really, are you gonna put me into a prison, like you did last time you kidnapped me, because that plan failed and I already escaped, thanks to my powers and Script Person, here.

THE REVIEW MASTER (FUTURE): No, we’re going to torture you with a “Thomas & Friends” special or movie, so bland, dumb, and bad, that it’s considered the worst of of them all!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Hmmm…..OH NO, YOU’RE NOT SAYING–

THE REVIEW MASTER (FUTURE): Oh, yes, I’m saying–

THE REVIEW MASTER (BOTH PRESENT & FUTURE): “CALLING ALL ENGINES”!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep, as you can tell, today’s review will be what is considered one of the worst “Thomas” special of all time! That is “Calling All Engines”, first released in September 2005 in the US and October 2005 in the UK. It was supposed to mark the commemoration of Thomas or The Railway Series’ 60th anniversary. Man, this special’s awful, it’s even worse than “Misty Island Rescue”! THAT’S RIGHT, I SAW THAT TOO!!!! Please note that this was the first “Thomas” special and as you can tell, it didn’t go so well. What makes this so bad?

What makes you want to eat it as a knuckle sandwich? Well, you’re about to find out. This is “Calling All Engines”. Ugh.

The premise of the special is that summer has reached the Island of Sodor and we find out that a suspension bridge has been built on Sodor, which is like the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge. One day at Tidmouth Sheds, our favorite fat-man himself, Sir Topham Hatt AKA The Fat Controller, announces that a new airport is being built because of new visitors coming to the Island. As you’d expect, the Steam Team and the rest of the engines are excited over this (so-called) “exciting” news! After this, we get our first song of the special, “Busy”, which more or less is actually a song of engines getting dizzy, while working, which is completely pointless. So we finish that song and cut to the next scene.

Thomas and Percy are busy bringing bricks and timber to the construction site of the Airport, when, (of course) Arry and Bert, the Ironworks Diesels, bump behind them. Since diesels and steam engines can’t get along, the two best friends, Thomas and Percy, are very unhappy working with the diesels. Is that so? Well, explain to me why you get along with good diesels, like Mavis, Daisy, BoCo (even though we haven’t seen him in YEARS after Season 5), Derek, Rusty, Salty, etc….. After that, we are forced to do a learning segment of the differences between steam engines (or “steamies”, if you will) and diesels, which you can tell as a teenager or an adult. So, after our first “unnecessary” learning segment, Arry and Bert boast about their job of collecting timber from the timberyard and all the way to the construction site and make fun of Thomas being a steam engine (of course). This causes Thomas to get so furious, that he pays the two diesels back by pushing Arry’s flatbed, before the load of timber falls to the ground.

Later, Thomas and Percy are seen shunting trucks in the yard and we see everyone’s favorite devious and sly Class 08 shunting diesel, Diesel, show up. He explains to Thomas that he heard about the trouble he caused for Arry and Bert earlier, before roaming away to Brendam Docks for an important job. Thomas decides to get back at him too. What is Diesel’s important job? Well, the answer will be in ANOTHER LEARNING SEGMENT and a puzzle.

PUZZLE #001: What is Diesel’s important job? Click on one of the links below to get the correct answer.

A.) Show a new engine for merchandising around Sodor (as usual)

LINK TO ANSWER A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uC3-dTzZJM

B.) Collect supplies for the Airport

LINK TO ANSWER B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNarlVNOn0s

C.) Ask Andrew Brenner to revive the classic “Thomas” series and replace anything crappy

LINK TO ANSWER C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICiP_ZyICM8

Well, the answer is……….B: “Collect Supplies for the Airport”. Congratulations to those who got it right and sorry to those who got it wrong. Anyways, back to the story. We get another learning segment about Thomas trying to trick Diesel, by collecting the wrong freight car/truck. Here’s ANOTHER puzzle.

PUZZLE #002: What wrong truck does Diesel get?

A.) A truck of bananas

LINK TO ANSWER A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAk3EzIuZws

B.) A truck of bullcrap

LINK TO ANSWER B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cb-CtP8JKk

C.) A truck of jaffas for the Fat Man (Reference to “SteamTeam Quizzes”)

LINK TO ANSWER C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9yAHKuMnBo

The answer is…..A: “A truck of bananas”! How ridiculous is that?! Anyways, the trick also works and Thomas and Percy are assigned to go to the Smelters Yard to collect some steel girders. But, they are stopped by none other than everyone’s favorite Class 42 “Warship” diesel from “Thomas and the Magic Railroad”, “Diesel 10”!!! How did he escape from the barge of sludge from “TATMR”, I’ll never know. Because they find Diesel 10 intimidating, Thomas and Percy escape and discover that the Suspension Bridge is wobbly and the Airport is almost complete. However, these aren’t the only discoveries our heroes encountered because the biggest surprise of all is when they reach Tidmouth Sheds to find out that Tidmouth Sheds is being demolished.

THAT was the important job Arry, Bert, and Diesel were working on all along. But, I thought they were working on the Airport. OH, CRAP, YOU CHEEKY TANK ENGINES!!!!:

As a result, the Steam Team is forced to sleep at different locations. James has to sleep in the coaling plant, Edward and Diesel having to share a shed at the quarry, Henry and Percy sleeping at the Smelters Yard, Gordon staying under a tent like a hobo, but Toby has to sleep at his shed at Arlesdale End (lucky one), and Thomas and Emily have to sleep at Knapford Sheds. Later that night, a hurricane strikes on the Island and causes major damage to the Railway and causes the Suspension Bridge to collapse. When the storm passes the next morning, Thomas huffs across Sodor and finds all the damage that had been done, including the Airport and the Suspension Bridge. Fat Man explains that they have to fix the Island once more, before getting ANOTHER FREAKING LEARNING SEGMENT!!!!!!!!! After that, Thomas brings workmen to repair the Suspension Bridge, where Diesel is waiting for him, too. You already know that Thomas and Diesel decide to not speak to each other and the same thing happens with Harvey, Arry and Bert, Edward, Henry, Gordon, and Toby.

So, more pointless scenes occur when Thomas encounters Diesel 10 again and chuffs quickly past him and when Thomas whistles in his sleep at Knapford Sheds, even though Thomas’ driver and firemen are nowhere to be seen! Yes, no drivers or firemen around. There is no way we’re ever going to believe that Thomas would magically whistle on his own, even though mostly the driver and firemen in the TV series nowadays are just mindless drones of the engines. They might even be held at gunpoint by the engines, until they do as they are told by the you-know-who’s and what’s. It’s about time HIT Entertainment realized that we need one single, solitary word that needs to be added to the show, which was in the Classic Series, “REALISM”!!!! Although, we’re starting to show a little bit of realism when Andrew Brenner took over, which was SO MUCH better than THIS CRAP!!!!!!!! WHY DOES THIS GET ME SO ANGRY?!

WELL, MANY FANS AGREE! WHY THE CRAP DO THE ENGINES WORK ON THEIR OWN WITHOUT THEIR CREW, EVEN THOUGH ANDREW BRENNER MADE THE SERIES RIGHT, YEARS AFTER THIS SPECIAL CAME OUT?!?!??!?!??!?!!??!!!!! SO, I’M CALLING B.S. ON THAT ONE!!!

It should be noted that B.S. stands for “Bad Steamer” in this context.

(Reference to “The Engine Inspector”)

Anyways, the new section for the Suspension Bridge arrives the next morning and (as M. Bison would say):

He asks Thomas to take it from Brendam Docks to the Bridge. Diesel shows up and offers help, but Thomas refuses, resulting in another song titled “Trying to Do Things Better”. After that, Thomas delivers the steel section to the Suspension Bridge, right after we have (yet another) learning segment. After he delivers the section, Thomas has to lower the section in its proper position. It works and everyone is happy. Yaay! *Weak Applause*

Yep, that was….Anti-climatic. Anyways, Diesel gets more furious then ever when Thomas boasts about steam engines being better than diesels. THAT’S RACIST!!

THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE: IT’S NOT RACIST!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Well, it is! Besides, you get along with good diesels like Salty, Mavis,– Wait, I already said that, earlier in the review!

THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE: EXACTLY! Since I’m the title character, I can do whatever I want, say whatever I want, and be whatever I want! NOTHING CAN STOP ME, “THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE”, THE NUMBER ONE TITLE CHARACTER!!!! SUCK IT, ALL THOSE ONE-OFF MERCHANDISING CHARACTERS THAT EVERYONE DESPISES SO MUCH AND SUCK IT, HIT ENTERTAINMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Oh really, then I can tell you one little secret that we’ve been keeping for a long time.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (WHISPERING): Edward was the first character to be introduced into “The Railway Series”, not you, Thomas.

THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE: BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! YEAH, RIGHT!!!! Good one!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Oh, I’m not bluffing. I never ever bluff! Even when I state the facts about something important!!

THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE: WHAT?! BUT, I–I–I–I THOUGHT THE REV. W. AWDRY AND CHRISTOPHER AWDRY LOVED ME!!!!!

DUCK THE GREAT WESTERN ENGINE: Well, what about US?! Me, Donald and Douglas, Bill and Ben, BoCo, Bear, Toad,–

OLIVER THE GREAT WESTERN ENGINE: Not to mention, me, of course! Ever since Season 8, you’ve been stealing our screentime! No wonder everyone blames you for being a “Star-Billing Bastard”!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: HEY, WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE, OLIVER!!!!! This is a review, not a swearing contest!!

OLIVER THE GREAT WESTERN ENGINE: Oh, sorry.

THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE: HEY! DON’T BLAME IT ON ME, CLASSIC CHARACTERS!!! IT’S THE WRITERS’ FAULT, NOT MINE!!!!!

DUCK THE GREAT WESTERN ENGINE: Beg pardon but, you’ve got a review to continue, Detective.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Holy crap, you’re right, Duck! We’ve got to get back to the show!

THE REVIEW MASTER (FUTURE): Indeed! YOU MUST CONTINUE, OR ELSE YOU’LL DIE, DETECTIVE!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Okay, okay, let’s go back to what we missed. Alright?

So yeah, Diesel’s mad at Thomas for being racist and wants to pay him out as well. So, Thomas goes to the yards to collect some paint flatbeds for the Bridge. This gives Diesel the perfect chance to get revenge on you-know-who, by pushing the flatbed too hard and causing paint cans to fly into the air and land all over Thomas. Now, it’s Thomas’ turn to get angry (again) and gets his revenge, by pushing Arry into a pile of gravel and stone. Arry does the same thing when he pushes James under the coal hopper. This turns into a bashing war between steam and diesel, until all the engines get themselves into a major mess! Well, it would’ve been much darker, IF they used dynamite or TNT to blow up the engines, just like in “Sodor: The Dark Times”, except that Alfred the Holden B12 isn’t involved in this special.

In fact, Alfred isn’t even in the actual TV series and is only in Skarloey123’s “Sodor: The Dark Times” and is (SPOILERS) a “RWS” character named 98462!!!! Sorry I spoiled it, but I had to. As you would know, Fat Man is unhappy over the messes all the engines made and because of the jobs that had been uncompleted, the Airport won’t be able to open and the vacationers or the holidaymakers won’t come to Sodor. That night, we get to see the engines having nightmares of what it will be like if there were no vacationers and they’re pretty bizarre. Here they are out of the following:

1.) James being a funfair or a carnival game

2.) Gordon being a playground

3.) Edward being a scarecrow (not the Scarecrow from “Batman”)

4.) Percy being a roller coaster ride with goggles on

However, Thomas’ dream isn’t as bad as you’d think. In fact, it involves Thomas going on a mountain and meeting Lady from “TATMR” and Rusty (even though Rusty’s a narrow gauge engine from the Skarloey Railway)! Hold on, if Rusty’s in Thomas’ dream, then WHY THE CRAP WOULD HE BE ON STANDARD GAUGE TRACK?! Anyways, Rusty and Lady explain that they finish their jobs when they work together, in other words, convincing our hero that having steam engines or diesels working together will make things right. I’d take Thomas’ dream being good back, it’s bad because of the facts getting mixed up! Lady’s in Muffle Mountain with Burnett Stone, while Rusty’s in the Skarloey Railway, not the mountains! Well, the Narrow Gauge Railway’s in the mountains, so, whatever.

So, Thomas wakes up the next morning and tries to find Mavis in another LEARNING SEGMENT!!!!!! So, Thomas finds Mavis at the washdown and explains the situation to her. Mavis explains that they have to talk to the diesels, which gives our hero an idea. His idea is to explain to all the engines to have a meeting at the coaling plant, except for Diesel 10. Yes, even Daisy the Diesel Railcar is there too, go figure. 🙂 Anyways, Thomas explains that they have to work together and they all agree and Fat Man is pleased, even after he is explained about the alliance with diesels, after arriving on Harold the Helicopter. So, we partake in more learning segments, until the Airport is complete. Things go from good to bad when Thomas shunts some trucks on a bumpy track, which causes the trucks to derail, crash into the water tower, collapses, and causes the runway to somehow crack.

Now, George the Steamroller will have to fix this mess, but George is too slow to get the runway flat and Thomas will have to get Diesel 10 to help out. Thomas finds Diesel 10, picking up branches at the bottom of Gordon’s Hill, and convinces him to help out and solve the problem. Diesel 10 refuses at first, but he reluctantly agrees to help. All the engines are surprised over Diesel 10’s premise and (I swear, you’re about to poop yourself in rage in this scene and I swear I’m not kidding here) Diesel 10 is surprisingly a good guy. YES, DIESEL 10 IS A GOOD GUY?! WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!!!!! ONLY ONE VIDEO CAN DESCRIBE THIS SCENE AND THIS SPECIAL!!!!:

THANK YOU, TWILIGHT!!!!! DIESEL 10 HELPS OUT WITH THE MESS, WHILE THOMAS COLLECTS GEORGE THE STEAMROLLER FROM THE YARDS!!! GEORGE FLATTENS THE RUNWAY, THE PLANE WITH THE VISITORS MAKES IT ON TIME, AND FAT MAN IS IMPRESSED!!!!!!!!! WE GET ANOTHER SONG, WHICH IS UNIMPORTANT TO THE PLOT, AND WE GET A NEW SURPRISE!!! TIDMOUTH SHEDS IS NOW REBUILT AND THE STEAM TEAM IS HAPPY, EVEN EMILY BECAUSE SHE EVEN GOT HER OWN BERTH!!! NOW, ALL THE ENGINES ARE HAPPY!! FINALLY, THE SPECIAL’S OVER–

SINGER: They’re two, they’re four, they’re six, they’re eight–

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SINGER: *Continues Singing “Engine Roll Call” with Adding the Events of the Special*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: DADADADADADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!! SHUT UP!!!! I WANT THIS TO BE OVER, PLEASE!!! PLEASE, I BEG YOU!!! PLEASE!!!!…….It’s–It’s AWFUL, IT’S AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!! I’D MUCH RATHER WATCH THE SPECIAL WITH DIESEL 10 AS A BAD GUY AND BETRAYING EVERYONE, LIKE HE WAS SUPPOSED TO IN THIS SPECIAL, WHICH IS THE WORST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s amazing on how horrible it is! EVERY SECOND MAKES ME WANNA DESTROY HIT ENTERTAINMENT!!! THE PLOT IS VERY BORING AND IT’S ACTUALLY A WASTE OF TIME AND IS BASICALLY A FEATURE-LENGTH VERSION OF A BLAND “THOMAS” EPISODE!!!!!!! DIESEL 10 BEING A GOOD GUY IS THE WORST!! IT MAKES ME MAD, EVEN WHEN ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS GETS RUINED BY HIT!!!!!!!!! THE SONGS ARE FORGETTABLE, THEY NEVER ONCE GET A JOY!!!!! THE ONLY THING I LIKED IS LADY, DIESEL 10, AND DAISY RETURNING, BUT IT REALLY DOESN’T IMPROVE THE SPECIAL OVERALL!!!!!!!!!!!

REMEMBER, KIDS AND PARENTS, NEVER SHOW THIS TO YOUR KIDS (If you ever have any) AND NEVER SHOW IT TO ANYONE OR ANYTHING, EVER AGAIN!!! IT IS ONE OF THE WORST “THOMAS” SPECIALS I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE AND ONE OF THE WORST “THOMAS” SPECIALS OR MOVIES OF ALL TIME!!!!! AND GIVEN THE RESULTS OF MOVIES OR ANY TYPE OF “THOMAS” RELATED-CONTENT I’VE SEEN AND DONE OVER THE YEARS, THAT’S SAYING A LOT!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: NOW! LET ME GO!!! I’VE HAD IT WITH THIS SPECIAL AND I’VE HAD IT WITH YOU AND YOUR GANG!!!!!

THE REVIEW MASTER (PRESENT): NO! I won’t let you go– *KA-BOOM*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): Detective, there you are! We have to go!

THE REVIEW MASTER (FUTURE): Not for long! I WON’T LET YOU ESCA– *KA-BOOM*

THE REVIEW MASTER (FUTURE & PRESENT): AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOKS LIKE TEAM HUNTERS IS BLASTING OFF AGAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Faraway Ding!*

(“Pokemon” Reference)

DOCTOR TOOT: COME ON!!!

COMPUTER: Traveling to 2015 in 3….2….1! *ZOOM!* *BING*

-The Detective Librarian’s Office, 2015, 5:25 PM-

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: *Phew* Finally, after all that crazy time-traveling, it’s good to be back in my office. Well, at least I won’t have to watch all that misery of the worst “Thomas” special yet! Well, at least Dalek44 hated this special too!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): Oh yeah, I remember. Anyways, I have to go back into my own time. Thank you for helping us stop The Review Master and his buddies, me.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: NO, thank YOU for saving me from The Review Master’s present and future self. They’re still out there somewhere. But, I’ll always keep fighting back against The Review Master, no matter what the cost. Anyways, good luck in your future, future me.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): Same to you, me. *BING!*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Now, this special deserves a 1.5/10 for such a horrendous special. Now, let’s just hope that Season 3 won’t start off with anything horrendous as THIS SPECIAL!! But, that can wait. I’m The Detective Librarian and thank you for reading our last review for Season 2 and we’ll see you next season with more reviews, surprises, and other posts along the way! See you in Season 3, folks!

-THE END-

-THANK YOU FOR READING ALL OUR POSTS OF SEASON 2 AND WE’LL SEE YOU IN SEASON 3-

“The Time Travelers Trilogy” Part 2: Season 2: Review #27: “The Middle Season 5: Episode 4/The 100th Episode: “The 100th”

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING YOU’RE ABOUT TO SEE MAY CONTAIN, YOU KNOW WHAT I’M SAYING!!!!

-We Now Join Our Regularly Scheduled Review Already in Progress-

PREVIOUSLY ON “THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN”:

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: What’s going on?! Who are you??

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): I’m you from the future!!! 50 years from the future!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): Anyways, we need your help. We’ve traveled back in time from 50 years from the future, using a time portal and our Time Cruiser because 50 years from now, your future will be at stake!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): GREAT SCOTT, WE’VE GOT AN ENEMY SHIP APPROACHING US IN THE VAST OF SPACE!!!!!!

FRANKIE HECK: Yes, it’s me! Frankie Heck! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’M HERE TO GET RID OF MY ARCH-NEMESIS, THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN, BOTH PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

LINK TO PREVIOUS REVIEW: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/06/25/the-time-travelers-trilogy-part-1season-2-review-26-mlp-fim-season-2-episode-20-its-about-time/

-Now, Onto Our Story-

FRANKIE HECK: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Frankie Heck from “The Middle”! I should’ve known you’d be following us, since you’re involved in The Review Master’s organization, “The Hunters”.

DOCTOR TOOT: What do you want from us and the “Great Doctor Toot”, Frankie?!

FRANKIE HECK: Oh, nothing. I just want the Detective from the past to do a review of the show I come from, “The Middle”!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: And if I DON’T do a review on a “Middle” episode, what will happen?

FRANKIE HECK: If you don’t, then your ship will be destroyed in the course of time and space, resulting in complete D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N!

EVERYONE: *GASP!*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: NO, I WON’T DO THAT! I’VE STOPPED THE REVIEW MASTER ONCE FROM CREATING “THE MIDDLE”, EVEN THOUGH A SEVENTH SEASON HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED A MONTH AND A-HALF AGO!!!!! BECAUSE I DESPISE YOU SO MUCH, FRANKIE, I WON’T DO WHAT YOU WANT ME OR EVERYONE ELSE TO DO!!!!!!!!!!!

FRANKIE HECK: FINE, have it your way. I shall destroy the Cruiser in 10…9……8…..7 *Cannon Charging*…6…5…4–

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Alright, alright. I’ll do it, okay?

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): NO, DETECTIVE! NO!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Future me, remember what I said, this is our problem and I have to face them, before you do! Be careful with the ship, alright?

-Frankie Heck’s Ship, The Control Room-

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Now, what do you want me to review this time?

FRANKIE HECK: This time, you must review one episode that many fans have been waiting for. Remember when we reached a hundred episodes of “The Middle”?

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Yeah, what about it?

FRANKIE HECK: Well, I want YOU to review our 100th episode, “The 100th”.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Okay, now, leave me be.

FRANKIE HECK: Ok. *Door Closing*

Now, that she’s gone, let me enlighten you about the 100th episode of “The Middle”. It aired when Season 5 was going on and it aired two weeks after another bad episode went by with flying colors, which is “The Potato”, but that’s not important right now. Now, this episode focuses on Orson, Indiana celebrating its 100th anniversary and we have Frankie and Mike participating in the centenary, but how will it work out? Let’s find out by taking a look at “The 100th”.

We start off this episode with stock footage of the pilot episode and about the main location that we humans call, Orson, Indiana. Then, we cut to the Hecks’ house when Mike receives a phone call from the Orson Community about participating in Orson’s 100th anniversary called “The Orsontennial”. However, Mike and Frankie don’t remember signing up for the centenary celebration because (get this) during their neighbors’, the Donahues, 4th of July party, they drink WAY TOO MUCH alcohol (since they drink beer) and as you’d expect, they get drunk. Nancy Donahue, the Donahue wife, (played by Jen Ray) thought that they actually meant being part of the centenary, proving that she’s either a serial killer or a dummy (like most people in Orson and the characters in the show). Remember kids, this is one of the many reasons you shouldn’t drink alcohol, until you’re twenty-one and when you turn 21, always drink responsibly!!!!!! Y’know, it makes me wonder. If the Hecks get drunk after they drink beer a lot, then WHY THE CRAP DO THEY CONTINUE DRINKING ALCOHOL?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! 😡

I mean, they act like they don’t EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING!!!! Why does Frankie and Mike keep drinking beer when it gets them drunk, because they are very stupid parents. 😦 Anyways, Sue Heck is still crushing on her ex-boyfriend, Darrin (portrayed by John Gammon) and is not pleased over his new girlfriend, Angel, as seen earlier this season in “Change in the Air”. That’s because Sue broke up with Darrin after Axl was jealous over Sue dating Darrin back in Season 4 and she’s slowly starting to get back to him, which won’t last very long because Sue and Darrin break-up (again) in Season 6 when Darrin proposed to Sue. Yes, Darrin proposed to Sue, even though Sue was still in high school during that time.:

But I digress, Sue’s plan to have Darrin break-up with Angel and get back with her is to pretend to date her gay friend/ex-boyfriend, Brad. I’m sorry, Sue, but Brad might have to date people who are the same gender as him, since he’s bisexual AKA gay and hopefully, Sue won’t turn into a lesbian. Speaking of Darrin, he’s been involved with Axl and Sean once again when Boss Co. returns. Axl and his friends AKA The Three Stooges decide to have Boss Co. be rich by creating a VIP area for viewing the parade for the 100th anniversary. After all, their plan might (obviously) fail and be like Dalek44’s “Sec & Co” on Youtube. Back with the story, Frankie and Mike see Nancy Donahue at the town hall and they find out that their position for the Orsontennial is to drive the cow float. I’m not questioning it, why should you?

Please note that riding the cow float was also part of them getting drunk and I swear that the people in Orson are idiotic. Also, we need an excuse to bring Brick into the story because Brick is participating in a contest to come up with a motto for Orson that will be used in the next 100 years from now. His motto comes from the history of Orson, which was a gold mine back a long time ago until it turned into the town it came to be today. Sorry Brick, but I think THIS motto would’ve been a better pay-off. It’s called “Orson: The Town of Bird-Brains That Lack Common Sense and Make Up Ridiculous Reasons and Explanations That Make Now Sense, Which Pretty Much Describes The Show, Currently”. Clearly, it’s a pretty descriptive motto. After all, the characters keep making the same error or mistake over and over again, until it makes you want to have a major, mental breakdown that’ll cause you to form an angry mob and sue Warner Bros. for having crude stereotypes, such as having cheerleaders being dumb and the teachers being jerks.

But I digress, the head of the contest is Frankie’s former boss, Mr. Ehlert (played by Brian Doyle-Murray), and I’m quite surprised that his company, which is a car dealership, is involved in this type of contest. It’s probably a cheap excuse to get more money, since Ehlert is a greedy dude and is like the humanized or “Middle” version of Mr. Krabs from “Spongebob”. So, Brick enters the contest and during the winner ceremony, it’s revealed that the winning motto was “Orson: Why Not”, instead of Brick’s motto. Wait, mine didn’t make it into the finals?

NARRATOR: No, it didn’t.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: But, I–I–:

Anyways, Sue’s plan to get back together with Darrin doesn’t work and I really wished that was possible because Darrin doesn’t deserve Angel anyway because she’s no sweet angel, she’s an “Angel of Bratness”. *Ba Dum Tsh!*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (SINGING): Angel of Bratness! Angel of Bratness! The world is in your hands and I will cry until the end! Angel of Bratness! Angel of Bratness! Don’t follow your own bratiness! But I will cry and I will want it now!!

(“Angel of Darkness” Parody)

So, Brick loses because his motto didn’t make it (big deal), while Frankie and Mike arrive at the parade, the night before the 100th anniversary parade begins and they talk about their lives before they go to sleep. Uh, wouldn’t it make more sense IF they slept AT HOME EARLY, BEFORE WAKING UP EARLY AND HEADING ALL THE WAY TO THE PARADE, THERE?! But enough with that, Nancy wakes them up the next morning by blowing a loud horn and rushes them to the cow float. See, I told you she was secretly a serial killer because she acts like she wants Frankie and Mike dead meat by now!!! Because (as I said earlier) the people in Orson are dumb, Frankie has to be in the front of the cow float on the bottom to give Mike directions, while Mike has to drive the steering wheel at the back of Frankie. You might think that the cow float was the most poorly designed float or creation off of the face of the Earth, just like “Sonic 06” or any other crappy video game that won’t connect anything with the review at all, but let’s think about it. The designers of that float would be sued or fired for sure!

Again, people in Orson are horrendously dumb and are a bunch of offensive stereotypes!!!!!!!!!!! Anyways, the parade starts and Boss Co. carries out their plan to make cash and as you’d expect, it doesn’t work. They even set up a grill or a wire that dangles onto the parade. While Frankie and Mike sit uncomfortably inside the cow float, they go on a complete rant of their mistake of signing up for this stupidity and having to be inside a poorly done, ridiculously, and an unbelievably fake looking one too. Because of the lack of common sense, bad things strike again when the cow float hits the wire connecting to Boss Co. and catches on fire.

Now, the cow float is heading straight towards Sue (again, I shall not ask any questions on why she is on the parade’s direction, anyway), until Darren saves her life, just before the cow float runs her over! This causes Sue to believe that there is hope that they’ll get back together (until Season 6). Instead of (y’know) calling an actual fire department to put out the fire, the old fire trucks that are involved in the parade use buckets of water to put out the fire. Also, instead of calling Frankie and Mike by using walkie-talkies, Nancy warns them about the burning cow float in-front of them, causing them immediately evacuate from the float. Now that everyone is safe, they’ll use the fire department to put out the fire, right? NO, instead, they push the cow float into the pool. Of course, it’s an unrealistic way of putting out a fire, instead of using an ACTUAL FIRE DEPARTMENT!:

YEAH, EXPLAIN TO ME, SHOW, WHY DON’T YOU USE THE REAL FIRE DEPARTMENT TO PUT OUT THAT INFERNO?!?!?!?!?! Some people just don’t know how to use common sense, do they? Anyways, we conclude this episode with a band, singing a parody of “I Was Born in a Small Town” called “I Was Born in a Teeny Place”. Y’know what I think would be a perfect song that’s much better than THAT song? I would call it “I Was Born in a Dumb Place” or “I Was Born in a Dumb Town”!!! Which title do you think sounds better? Be sure to let me know in the comments below.

So that’s the end of the 100th episode of “The Middle”. Honestly, things would’ve been better than expected. The plot was less than average, the subplots are meh, and the entire episode I must say was kind-of a waste of time (as usual). That’s what the show does nowadays, it wastes and kills time!!!! I’ve known the show for a long time when I was younger, but now I’m like, “Why Did I Like This Crap” or “How Do So Many People Like This Show?!” Overall, you’ll usually forget this episode in a week or so and move on to the next episode. Honestly, the 100th episode of “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”, “Slice of Life”, was much better to watch than this episode!

Other than that, I’ll be giving the 100th episode of “The Middle”, “The 100th”, a 4/10, it wasn’t that good.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Now, Frankie, will you PLEASE let me go, already?!

FRANKIE HECK: But first, we must take you to our boss!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: What?! NO! YOU TRICKED ME!!!

FRANKIE HECK: AHAHAHAHAHA! I SURE DID AS A REVENGE FOR DISGRACING ME FOR THE LAST TIME!!!!!!!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!! *Spaceship Bing!*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): GREAT SCOTT, FRANKIE MUST HAVE KIDNAPPED ME FROM THE PAST!! If they kill him, I’ll no longer exist in the face of time and all of you and the Time Travelers might not exist!:

EVERYONE: OH NO!!!!

FUTURE TWILIGHT SPARKLE: Quickly, we have to save him!!!

DOCTOR HOOVES: Same here!

DOCTOR TOOT: Count me in!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): Alright, now, let’s save myself and stop The Review Master from harming our time!!!! Time Travelers Away!!!! *Insert Spaceship Bing Sound Effect Here*

-The Review Master’s Lair, 2065-

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Ugh. Where am I?

THE REVIEW MASTER (FUTURE): Where you are, Detective is with me again!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: THE REVIEW MASTER!! WHY DID YOU BRING ME HERE?!

THE REVIEW MASTER (FUTURE): I brought you here so that YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE WON’T EVER EXIST IN YOUR OWN TIME!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

-TO BE CONCLUDED-

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“The Time Travelers Trilogy” Part 1/Season 2: Review #26: “MLP: FIM: Season 2: Episode 20: “It’s About Time”

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING YOU’RE ABOUT TO SEE MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!! TURN BACK IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THIS EPISODE YET!!!!!

-We Now Join Our Regularly Scheduled Review Already in Progress-

-Prologue: The Detective Librarian’s Office, 11:24 PM, 2065-

DOCTOR HOOVES: At last! It’s done! The portal that can reach help from the past from 50 years earlier!!!!

????: Perfect! Well done, Doctor Hooves! I see you still have that rivalry with Doctor Toot.

DOCTOR TOOT: Of course, I still have that rivalry with that ponified imposter of me!!!!!!

DOCTOR HOOVES: Of course I’m not an imposter of you, Doctor Toot!!!!

DOCTOR TOOT: Why you little–

FUTURE TWILIGHT: STOP IT!!! Arguing isn’t going to get us anywhere!!! We just recently finished our cruiser for time traveling and The Review Master’s guards are to show up at any moment!!!– *Crash*

?????: Uh oh! Here they come! Hop on and hurry!!!

FRANKIE HECK: Hey! Where do you think you’re going!!!

TIMOTHY THE GHOST TRAIN (DEMONIC FORM): EXACTLY!! WE SHALL SEND YOU TO THE GRAVEYARD WHEN WE ARREST YOU!!!!!!

FUTURE TWILIGHT SPARKLE: Come on! Activate the Time Cruiser!!!

COMPUTER: Activating Jet Booster A and Jet Booster B. Launching in 10…..9…..8…..7…..6….5….4…3..2..1!!! Lift-off! We have lift-off to: 50 years earlier in the past. Thank you and have a nice travel. 😉 *BAM!*

FRANKIE HECK: Oh, bother!!!!! YOU LET THEM ESCAPE!!!!!

TIMOTHY THE GHOST TRAIN (DEMONIC FORM): NO I DIDN’T!!!! YOU LET THEM ESCAPE, YOU BRAT!!!!!!!!!!! WAIT UNTIL THE BOSS HEARS ABOUT THIS!!!!

-The Detective Librarian’s Office, 11:39 AM, Present Day-

Hello, I’m The Detective Librarian and I have exciting news for you all! Season 2 of my reviews are almost over!

AUDIENCE: Awwwww……

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Don’t feel sad! We’ll be having Season 3 of my reviews on my blog! You may think we’ll be doing “Finale Month”, just like last season. But no, we’ll be doing something very fun. The last few reviews of Season 2 will be about time-traveling and– *Cruiser Landing Outside* What the crap was that? Excuse me for a second, folks.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Oh…My….Goodness!…………

?????: Detective, there you are!!! Oh, thank god we’re at the right time!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: What’s going on?! Who are you??

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): I’m you from the future!!! 50 years from the future!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: ME from the FUTURE?! HOLY CRAP, HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?!?! THIS is CRAZY!!!!

FUTURE TWILIGHT SPARKLE: It’s not crazy!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Future Twilight? What are you doing here? You’re going to be in today’s episode!

DOCTOR HOOVES: You see, she’s with us.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: DOCTOR HOOVES?!! *Fangirl Screaming* OMG, I LOVE YOU, DOCTOR HOOVES!!!! YOU’RE ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS OF “MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC”!!!!! Can I get your autograph? Pulheaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee??????????????????????? *Squee*

DOCTOR HOOVES: Hmm……Alright.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-One Second of Signing a Autograph Later-

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: OH, THANK YOU, DOCTOR!!!!

DOCTOR TOOT: Me?!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: No, not you, Doctor Who!

DOCTOR TOOT: It’s Doctor TOOT, if you will!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Doctor Toot? That’s a weird parody of “Doctor Who”.

DOCTOR HOOVES: Not to mention a pompous doppelganger of myself.

DOCTOR TOOT: HEY!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): Anyways, we need your help. We’ve traveled back in time from 50 years from the future, using a time portal and our Time Cruiser because in 50 years from now, your future will be at stake!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Why?

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): Because The Review Master will take over the world and your office and be “King of All Reviewers”, not to mention the leader of “The Hunters”, even though you know that.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Well, kind of.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): Anyways, we need you to help us prevent this tragic event from happening by traveling back in time to stop The Review Master before he takes over our home, world, and family!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Oh my, count me in!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): Also, I run an organization called “The Timer Travelers”, where we travel back in time to prevent history from messing up and do whatever the crap we want!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Okay, let’s go.

-After Going into the Time Cruiser and into Time and Space-

FUTURE TWILIGHT SPARKLE: Alright, we’re traveling to 50 years in the future to prevent our home from being destroyed.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: So, how long will it take for us to get to our destination, Future me?

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): Well, according to my calculations, it will take…….GREAT SCOTT, it’ll take more than two days to get to the future!!!!

EVERYONE: TWO DAYS?!?!?!??!?!

DOCTOR TOOT: You gotta be kidding me! I am the Great Doctor Toot, who decided to partake in this group and end up having to travel back in time in one setting, but decide to go back to our time in two days?!?!?!?! SON OF A BISCUIT!!!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Well, look at the bright side. We’ll have some fun, while we wait, like play a game of “Go Fish” or do a review– HOLY CRAP, I FORGOT THAT I’M GOING A TIME-TRAVELING REVIEW!!!! Well, it’s the perfect time to do so!! Now, if you’ll excuse me, it’s time I do a review in a different room, guys. Okay?

EVERYONE: Okay!

FUTURE TWILIGHT SPARKLE: Good luck, Detective.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: You too, Twiley!

Anyways, sorry about that folks. But, today, we’ll be taking a look at one episode of “MLP: FIM” that focuses on time-travel. This is “It’s About Time”, which aired on the HUB Network on March 10, 2012. Now, I find the way Future Twilight looked, very cool. No Pun Intended.

FUTURE TWILIGHT SPARKLE: *Blush*

Now, “It’s About Time” we find out how “cool” Future Twilight is. This is “It’s About Time”. *Ba Dum Tsh!*

The episode starts off with Spike having a dream sequence, where he and Rarity (because he has a crush on Rarity) are at a land of ice cream. I’m not questioning it, why should you? Also, he’s showing her around his ice cream and chocolate fudge-made house, until he wakes up in Golden Oak Library at 3 AM in the morning, seeing Twilight Sparkle Sparkle Sparkle getting anxiety issues, as usual, while making a schedule for this month. When the sun rises, Twilight is still writing her schedule, until she receives an unexpected visitor from a different time that goes like this:

Yeah, a future version of Twilight Sparkle being something you would see in “Gears of War”. See, I told you Future Twilight looks cool. After receiving that message, Twilight worries that her future self must have been sent here to tell her that something bad is going to happen in the future of next Tuesday morning. Unless, if it meant…..Absolutely NOTHING!!!!!!! As you’d expect, Twilight decides to prevent the so-called “disaster” from occurring! She spreads the news to everyone in Ponyville, but they surprisingly laugh at her story. However, Twilight’s friends believe in Twilight and decide to have everyone in town come up with a plan to prevent the disaster from happening by doing a montage of trying to “Disaster-Proof Equestria”, like this:

Yeah, “Disaster-Proofing Equestria”, more like “Doing What Normal People Do in Real Life” to me!!! So, a Cerberus from Tartarus pops up and attacks Ponyville. Twilight guesses that this was the disaster her future self told her about. However, because of Fluttershy’s animal skills and kindness, she rubs its belly, while Pinkie Pie gets a ball out of a tree knot and hands a ball to Twilight, places balls all over Ponyville in case of a “ball emergency”, while Twilight uses the ball to lure the Cerberus back to Tartarus. Don’t be shocked that we’ll be doing ball emergencies when a creature attacks us or when the apocalypse begins.

The next morning, Twilight returns home and receives word that Princess Celestia hasn’t even heard of the Cerberus escaping from Tartarus. Really, REALLY, CELESTIA!!!! I thought you were a responsible leader of Equestria and you just made another idiotic choice! First, you forced the Mane Six to risk their lives to save Equestria four times in a row, you neglected your student when she suspected the fake Cadence, who was actually Chrysalis in disguise, you though Discord could stop Tirek in Season 4, and YOU NEVER GOT WORD THAT THE CERBERUS ESCAPED FROM TARTARUS!?!?!?!?!?!

This is one of the many reasons Luna is better! I’m sorry, I still like Celestia, but Luna’s better in my opinion. But I digress, the note of the Cerberus being lost comes out of Spike’s burp and hits Twilight in the cheek, resulting in a paper cut. Now, we know that the paper cut caused our hero to have the EXACT SAME SCAR AS FUTURE TWILIGHT DID WHEN SHE WARNED PRESENT DAY TWILIGHT ABOUT THE FUTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyways, Twilight paces around the lobby in a deep, deep circle and makes ANOTHER plan to prevent the entire “disaster” from occurring, by not moving a muscle, until next Tuesday. Yep, not moving an inch, staying still as a statue, refusing to budge an inch, while not eating or drinking, going to the bathroom, surfing on the web, going on TV, helping the community, reading a book, a magazine, or a newspaper, dancing, making a long list of what she should do and not do, do a schedule or check-list (like she always does), or make a long list of why I’m making this long list!!!!!! Heck, even I could make a list that long, in which I already did, before I bore the audience with such a long way to go!!!!!

Okay, Spike starts to enjoy Twilight being still by eating an entire chunk of ice cream, just like in his dream in the beginning of the episode! Rainbow Dash shows up and explains that a pegasus recently did an all-clear in Baltimare, the Equestrian version of Baltimore. Man, Laura Fraust really knows how to make parodies or ponified versions of famous landmarks in the world like Manhattan, London, Philadelphia, etc… The fun starts to continue and end with a band when Spike decides to tickle Twilight with a feather, which results him getting catapulted by Twilight and crashing into the wall and spewing out a giant fireball at Twilight. Luckily, Twilight survived the ordeal, but Spike feels very sorry over his accident. It’s because the fireball caused Twilight’s mane to be the exact same mane as Future Twilight did, proving that she has more signs that the future is near. Well, what are the odds, Twilight?

So, Spike decides to help Twilight out by asking “Madame Pinkie Pie”, which is obviously our favorite, crazy, serial killer, party pony, Pinkie Pie, to predict the future. Please note that Pinkie Pie is now a fortune teller and decides to use the crystal ball, like most fortune tellers, to figure out what Twilight’s future will be. Alright, it’s puzzle time:

PUZZLE #001: What will Twilight’s future be? Be sure to click on the following links below:

A.) She will receive a cool birthday present

LINK TO ANSWER A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9fz5OzKqhk

B.) She’ll form an angry mob against Shining Armor– I mean, Prince Blueblood

LINK TO ANSWER B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cb-CtP8JKk

C.) She’ll become an alicorn in Season 3 and still be the most popular character voiced by Tara Strong and in the series, even though we prefer the original Twilight better than the new one

LINK TO ANSWER C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cb-CtP8JKk

Now. The answer is…….A: “She will receive a cool birthday present”! Well done to those who got it right and sorry for those who got it wrong!!! Anyways, Twilight is disappointed at Pinkie’s prediction and begs Pinkie to use her “Pinkie-Senses” that has been since the Season 1 episode, “Feeling Pinkie Keen”, but Pinkie is unable to do so. Then, a flower pot randomly falls on top of Twilight’s head, in which Pinkie did not expect.

At Golden Oak Library, Pinkie visits Twilight and discovers something very peculiar. Because of not doing anything, predicting the future, and “Disaster-Proofing Equestria” didn’t work, Twilight now has to:

1.) Creepy

2.) Crazy

3.) The list button is stuck

4.) I’ll soon fix it later

(Sort-of remake of a “Nancy Drew”, “Good News, Bad News” joke)

So, we figure out that Twilight hasn’t slept ever since Future Twilight showed up and next Tuesday is tomorrow. Seriously, Twilight, YOU REALLY NEED TO RELAX AND START FACING REALITY!!!!!! Well, it’s part of your personality that you have anxiety issues or suffer from OCD (obsessive complusive disorder). But I (again) digress, Twilight hurts her eye by aiming her telescope, directly at the sun!!! As Pinkie places an eye patch on Twilight’s eye, Twilight realizes that this is the EXACT SAME EYE PATCH FUTURE TWILIGHT WORE!!!!!! Now, she has come up with the craziest conclusion yet to prevent the disaster from happening at Tuesday morning, which is to…….:

Now, Pinkie, Twilight, and Spike go to Canterlot to sneak into the Canterot Archives in the Star Swirl the Bearded Wing to use the time-traveling spells to “STOP TIME”, just like Future Twilight said. Twilight’s suit gets ripped off and it becomes the exact same you-know-what as you-know-who!!! They go to back where they started and are easily recognized by a guard, but are allowed to go inside the Wing to find a time spell to stop time. As the sun rises, Twilight fears for the disaster to occur, but nothing happens. Then, Celestia shows up and doesn’t scold Twilight, instead, she bids her a happy Tuesday, before walking away.:

Yeah, it is (Again, from “Sonic OVA”):

Anyways, Twilight realizes that there WAS no disaster at all, while Pinkie discovers a time spell that can travel someone back in time for only a few seconds. The same warning happens from the beginning and now we realize that Future Twilight’s warning was Twilight trying to warn herself not to worry so much. Well, so much for creating suspense and thinking that it’ll foreshadow future events of a different episode we know. Well, Pinkie explains that it’s actually past Twilight’s problem now, which is correct. Now, after eating ice cream throughout the entire episode, Spike has a stomach ache. Now, it’s time to end the episode with Twilight and Pinkie carrying future Spike, after eating all that ice cream, home.

THE END.

So that was “It’s About Time”. Guys, this episode is not that bad. The plot was less than average and the moral didn’t make much sense, even though it kinda does make sense that you can’t worry too much. However, Future Twilight is pretty cool and it would be more interesting to see more of her in future episodes. Although, it would’ve been funnier if they had Doctor Hooves cameo in this episode and make a reference to “Doctor Who”.–

DOCTOR HOOVES: Did you call my name, Detective?

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: No, not really.

DOCTOR TOOT: Well, he was clearly speaking to ME!

DOCTOR HOOVES: NO, ME!

DOCTOR TOOT: NO, ME!

DOCTOR HOOVES: NO, ME!

DOCTOR TOOT: NO–

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Alright, alright, alright, alright. Settle down, you two. I’ve got a review to finish here!

DOCTOR TOOT: Oh, right!

DOCTOR HOOVES: Yeah, sorry.

Overall, this episode was okay and it would’ve been easier if the warning actually meant something, rather than be just a warning to not worry so much. But, I’m pretty content over what we got. This episode deserves a 7/10. I’m The Detective Librarian and if you’ll excuse me, I need to check how our team is doing and– *Alarm*

COMPUTER: WARNING!!! UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT APPROACHING!!! WARNING!!! UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT APPROACHING!!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! REPEAT! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: We’ve got an emergency! Bye, everybody!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: What’s going on, Future me?

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (FUTURE): GREAT SCOTT, WE’VE GOT AN ENEMY SHIP APPROACHING US IN THE VAST OF SPACE!!!!!!

FUTURE TWILIGHT SPARKLE: It’s…

DOCTOR TOOT: It’s…

DOCTOR HOOVES: It’s..

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (BOTH PRESENT & FUTURE): IT’S!!

FRANKIE HECK: Yes, it’s me! Frankie Heck! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’M HERE TO GET RID OF MY ARCH-NEMESIS, THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN, BOTH PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!

-TO BE CONTINUED-

Season 2: Review #25: “Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva”

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING YOU’RE ABOUT TO SEE MAY CONTAIN SOME YOU-KNOW-WHATS (SPOILERS)!!!!! SO, TURN BACK IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THIS MOVIE YET, YOU’LL UNDERSTAND!!!!!

-We Now Join Our Regularly Scheduled Review Already in Progress-

Hello, I’m The Detective Librarian and you may all remember me mentioning a movie based off of a video game series on my “Top 10 Best Movies of All Time (Either Real or Fan-Made)”. Yes, I’m of course talking about “Professor Layton”, a Japanese video game series for the Nintendo DS and the 3DS. It all began in 2007, when Level-5 first released the first game in the original trilogy, “Professor Layton and the Curious Village”, before being released in Europe and the US one year later in 2008. It later sold two more games such as “Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box” (or “Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box” in the UK) and the final game in the original trilogy, “Professor Layton and the Unwound Future” (or “Professor Layton and the Lost Future” in the UK). Now, in case you don’t know about it, I’ll give you the premise. The series is about a puzzle-solving, archaeologist named Professor Hershel Layton and his young assistant named Luke Triton, who are Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

They solve mysteries in London, England or in other parts of England, while solving puzzles and tracking down culprits. It’s still a good game series back then and it’s a well-known game to this day. However, when the original trilogy ended in Japan, Level-5 decided to make a prequel trilogy on how Layton first met Luke and the other characters he used to trust and work with until they were forgotten in the original trilogy, chronologically. The prequel trilogy started off with “Professor Layton and the Last Specter” or “The Specter’s Call” if you’re in the UK. Now, during the prequel trilogy, Level-5 made a movie based off of the game series called “Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva”, that was first released in Japan on December 19, 2009, before being released in the UK (before the prequel trilogy beginner was released in 2011 in the UK and US) on October 18, 2010 and on November 8, 2011 in the US. Since this movie involves the usual “puzzle-solving” technique, we’ll be solving a bunch of puzzles and be sure to keep track of how much you got correct or incorrect. Now, time for our puzzle-solving game called “The Detective Librarian’s Puzzle-Game” to solve puzzles by taking a look at “Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva”.

The film starts off with Luke Triton (played by his UK voice actress, Maria Darling) giving us a little history lecture of the “Professor Layton” games all the way from “The Curious Village” to “The Last Specter”, before the film officially begins during the original trilogy. It starts off with the title character himself (played by his English voicer in the games, Christopher Robin Miller), Professor Hershel Layton and Luke Triton inside Big Ben, solving a mystery of Big Ben’s bell being silenced. It’s revealed that the bell didn’t disappear, it was its sound, while opening a door by solving a puzzle with the stars, the moon, and the sun, which leads to outside Big Ben on top of the clock tower, while we hear Big Ben’s bell ringing again. At the Tower Bridge, Layton figures out that the culprit is the original trilogy antagonist, Don Paolo (played by Johnathan Keeble), in disguise as an old lady. He gets away by using an umbrella as a propeller, which is like a helicopter, but Layton and Luke, along with Inspector Chelmey and Constable Barton (from the original trilogy) send the police to chase after him.

After this, we show a montage of Layton’s life with Luke narrating the story and getting a flashback of one of the Professor’s former students, Janice Quatlane (played by Emma Tate), who was studying to become an opera singer, after Layton shows a record of “The Eternal Diva”, which took place three years ago. After revealing the movie’s title in Japanese, we finally get to see the true events of the story. The REAL premise is that Janice Quatlane has invited Professor Layton and Luke Triton to come and see her in an opera about a lost kingdom called Ambrosia in a theater near the ocean called “The Crown Petone”. When the opera starts, Luke is impressed by Janice’s singing and is told by Layton about the instrument that’s playing the music during the opera called the “Detragon”, which looks more like an organ that is used as a piano with steam pipes in it. But, it includes any instrument you see on it like a trumpet, harp, trombone, etc… It was created by Oswald Whistler, a pianist and the father of Janice’s late best friend, Melina, who passed away of an illness a year before this story begins.

After we hear the Professor’s positive thoughts on the Detragon, we hear Janice’s letter that was sent to our heroes. The letter also reveals that Janice met Melina inside a seven-year old girl named Nina, who claims that she’s been granted eternal life. Well, at least it wasn’t a ghost or any type of spirit who possessed that girl before getting an exorcism. But I digress, we get a little prologue of how Layton and Luke even went to the theater in the first place, it turns out that they were driven by the Professor’s assistant in the prequel trilogy, Emmy Altava (also played by Emma Tate) and start to discuss about Janice’s letter and the girl who gained eternal life. Emmy begins to tease Luke about being a “second assistant” instead of being an “apprentice #1”. Uh, aren’t apprentice and assistant kind of the same thing? Oh well, we get to hear the history of Ambrosia in the opera.

Ambrosia was a kingdom that was ruled by a queen that was considered beautiful, who adored music the most. However, hard times came when the queen suddenly fell ill and the people were upset and tried to save her, but failed in doing so. But just an elixir called “The Elixir of Eternal Life” was found, the queen died. Ever since after the queen’s passing, the people of Ambrosia decided to drink the Elixir of Eternal Life in order to wait for their queen to be resurrected and to this day, no one knows if Ambrosia really exists or not. After the opera ends, Layton and Luke give an applause, while the audience did not enjoy the play and just give a weak applause. Just then, the lights turn off an a mysterious man with a mask and a hat gives out a very special announcement. The audience will receive a miracle AKA the gift of eternal life.

But, in order to obtain that eternal life, we must play a game. If you win, you get eternal life, if you don’t, you’ll lose your lives. The audience tries to escape, refusing to partake in the game, until they fall through a trapdoor and into their deaths, but not all of them died though. Just then, Inspector Clamp Grosky (from the original trilogy) from Scotland Yard shows up and hands cuffs the man, calling him a “diabolical criminal”. However, it turns out that the man is a puppet and floats away like a balloon, but has a hole after it hits a sharp blade and causes Grosky to go flying away with the balloon-like puppet. Well, that was a dumb idea, Inspector, maybe staying with the audience would’ve worked after all! 😉 Just as our heroes try to escape from the theater, it’s revealed that the Crown Petone is actually a ship sailing across the ocean and is surrounded by sharks with metal-like noses on them on their nozzles.

After Grosky recovers from the puppet incident, he finds Nina, the girl with eternal life earlier, missing, until she appears behind him, wanting to go home like a brat and pushing him into the ocean and trying to swim away/escape from the evil sharks. Meanwhile, the puzzle-solving game begins with puzzle #001: Now, it’s time for our first puzzle of the review.

PUZZLE #001: What is the first puzzle of the puzzle-solving game of the movie? Click on one of the links out of the following to check your answer.:

A.) Try to find the writer’s peanut butter sandwich

LINK TO ANSWER A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uC3-dTzZJM

B.) Look for the oldest thing you could see

LINK TO ANSWER B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRZbAF152gk

C.) Find an angry mob to sue HIT Entertainment for making the “Thomas” franchise crappy, including making more characters for selling merchandising

LINK TO ANSWER C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uC3-dTzZJM

Which one is the right answer? Choose wisely.

The answer is option B, “Look for the Oldest Thing You Could See”. For those of you who got it right, congratulations. Sorry to those who got it wrong. Anyways, the first puzzle begins with a timer, which is our usual music that plays in the background, when playing “Professor Layton” games. After minutes of searching, the Professor figures out the answer. The oldest thing we can see is the stars, which is very true, seeing on how stars have existed in the very beginning of time, ever since the universe was created by God. In case you’re wondering, Janice is with the Professor and Luke and you’ll figure it out why later.

So, everyone in the theater gets it right, while everyone outside the theater gets it wrong. Now, onto the next puzzle of the movie and our game.

PUZZLE #002: What is the second puzzle of the movie?:

A.) Go to where you can see the largest crown

LINK TO ANSWER A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRZbAF152gk

B.) Go and see the “Batman and Robin” movie

LINK TO ANSWER B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uC3-dTzZJM

C.) Read every single book by Stephen King in the next 24 hours

LINK TO ANSWER C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uC3-dTzZJM

Again, choose wisely.

The answer is……Option A, “Go to Where You Can See the Largest Crown”! Again to those who answered correctly, congratulations. To those who got it incorrect, keep trying! Now, let’s continue with our game. It’s Luke’s turn to solve the puzzle because he comes to the conclusion that the Crown Petone is the largest crown. They decide to go outside the theater because of the red herring on the entrance and go on lifeboats to continue on with their mysterious game. On the lifeboats, the remaining contestants, including Amelia Ruth, a gifted young girl who wants to give eternal life to her grandfather, who only has one month to live, Curtis O’ Donnel, a sea captain who wants to sail the seas forever, Annie Dretche, an overweight (no offense) author, Celia Raidley, a gossip magazine girl, and Pierre Starbuck, a former football or soccer player, if you will, who is nicknamed “The Man with the Golden Left Leg”, who gave up playing due to a leg injury.

After we hear more of the characters, Luke notices that he unexpectedly got his answer wrong. It turns out that the ENTIRE ship was the largest crown the whole time! You might expect that our heroes will be disqualified out of the competition, but no! They surprisingly stay and the lifeboats quickly convert into motorboats, continuing their journey to the end of the game. Meanwhile, Grosky makes his way to the ship, but only finds out that the ship’s being blown up, since it’s no longer useful to the plot and when he returns to the ocean, he discovers two submarines heading to sea and the other heading to land.

At London, Emmy visits Nina’s parents and interrogates them. Nina’s parents become very worried over their daughter not returning home, before we get more cameos of various characters from previous games. Emmy visits Layton’s former mentor, Dr. Andrew Schrader, and continues her investigation on the case of Nina and the legend of Ambrosia by noticing an artifact that is the only one from the lost city. Then, she sees a news report of the disqualified contestants of the mysterious game that luckily made it out of the submarines from earlier. (Plot Thickening) After this, Emmy rushes out of Schrader’s office to continue her investigation on this bizarre case with a map.

Meanwhile, we see Layton, Luke, Janice, and the others arrive on an island with mysterious white tubes and an Amrbosian symbol, meaning that the island they’ve landed on is actually Ambrosia, including the famous seal symbol on it. Also, they discover a table with food and drinks (including alcohol) that is a reward to the remaining contestants of the game. After they finish the food and drinks, our heroes lay on the beach peacefully. The plot thickens even more when Nina starts humming the song she hummed on the Crown Petone earlier, while collecting seashells, even Luke is impressed. After he hears a mysterious howl, Nina vanishes like magic. The howl is actually a pack of mind-controlled wolves with metal-like things on their ears that’s supposed to be brainwashing them, I guess, ambush our heroes. Well, imagine if they were actually werewolves, hyenas or the Hyenas from “The Lion King”, Boos from “Super Mario Bros.”, or a pipe leading our heroes to eternal life, just like again in “Super Mario Bros.”

Just think about it. What could possibly help our heroes out of danger? Either Optimus Prime, a cage– Hey, speak of the devil because– Hold on, you’re about to spoil the answer to our next puzzle of the game.:

PUZZLE #003: What do our heroes do in order to escape from the wolves?:

A.) Call Arnold Schwarzenegger to be “The Terminator” by using a giant bazooka to blow up and kill the wolves, sky high! XD

LINK TO ANSWER A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICiP_ZyICM8

B.) Have the “I Like Trains” Kid from “asdf” movies defeat the wolves with a train, running them over–

TRAINS KID: “I Like Trains”. *Train Horn and Passing By*

LINK TO ANSWER B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICiP_ZyICM8

C.) Run away from the wolves

LINK TO ANSWER C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIoRlUBwD8I

Remember, choose wisely and click on one of the links to see if you get it right or wrong. What do our heroes do against the wolves?

The answer is C, run away from the wolves, resulting in a chase sequence! Correctamundo for those who got it right and sorry to those who got it wrong. Since our heroes decide to run away from those wolves, we get a chase sequence that leads to a bunch of trees with three cages and a weird castle up ahead. This leads to Puzzle #003 of the movie and Puzzle #004 for our game!

PUZZLE #004: What is the solution to the third puzzle of the movie?

A.) Trap yourself in the cage(s), rather than trap the wolves themselves

LINK TO ANSWER A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afLjeXrZuvc

B.) Trap the wolves

LINK TO ANSWER B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cb-CtP8JKk

C.) Run away once again

LINK TO ANSWER C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9yAHKuMnBo

Be careful, you must choose (like I said) W-I-S-E-L-Y!

Now, you may think that Option B was the right answer…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….WRONG!!!! The correct answer is A, “Trap yourself in the cage(s), rather than trap the wolves!” Boy, it was a tricky one, wasn’t it? 😀 😉 Anyways, Layton, Luke, Janice, and everyone else, except for Curtis, Mr. Whistler, Annie, and Frederick Bargland, the CEO of the World Fleet Corporation. Since they’re trapped inside, the remaining contestants are forced to sneak away from the wolves with the cages, but Layton, Luke, and Janice accidentally trip and fall, causing the wolves to continue their chase after them. Our heroes make it into a shed and discover many tools and supplies, that cause Layton to have ANOTHER idea!

PUZZLE #005: What is Layton’s Idea?

A.) Use the tools to fight back against the wolves

LINK TO ANSWER A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uC3-dTzZJM

B.) Create a grasshopper-like and makeshift helicopter

LINK TO ANSWER B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRZbAF152gk

C.) Dig a hole with a shovel to go underground and into the castle

LINK TO ANSWER C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uC3-dTzZJM

Now, you can choose the right answer right now!!!

The correct answer is B, “Create a grasshopper-lke and makeshift helicopter”! That sounds like a stupid idea, but it works. Our heroes ride the Professor’s creation through a roller-coaster ride of their lives, until they reach the castle. They arrive in the courtyard with four entrances to each four tower and four letters on each entry. This leads to the fourth and final puzzle of the movie. Puzzle #004 is that you have to pick the correct entrance/letter that leads to the king’s chamber.

Luke gets it right by writing “I” & “N” between “K” & “G”, proving that he has to go in the door between those two letters. However, Layton refuses to go along with Luke because he starts to believe that this game isn’t about eternal life after all. Well, ISN’T IT OBVIOUS FROM THE VERY START OF THIS MOVIE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!! So, Layton leads Pierre and Celia into the wrong room that leads to a trap door. The trap door opens, sending Pierre and Celia to their doom, except for our favorite, title character who loves solving puzzles and such. If I was with Professor Layton and I was led into a trap door, this would be me and it’s just like this scene:

Back with the story, Luke, Janice, Amelia, and Macro Brock, the amateur historian who studied Ambrosia and is one of the contestants, make it to the King’s Chamber, but are suddenly trapped by bars. Just then, we finally see the real villain of the movie and one of the antagonists of the prequel trilogy (not to mention one of my favorite characters), a scientist named “Jean Descole” (played by Johnathan Keeble in this movie and Walter Rego in the games, even though he sounds more like Tim Curry, rather than Walter Rego. Let’s go with Tim Curry, okay? Okay). Descole announces that the game is coming to an end and asks his minions to bring Amelia to him and capture Luke, Janice, and Macro.

Meanwhile, Emmy rides on a biplane and notices Grosky stranded on debris, floating in the middle of the ocean and later rescues him. After hearing Grosky’s explanation, Emmy goes the island, while Layton learns more info about Nina and the disturbing truth behind the game. Luke and Janice escape from the villains, while Macro gets killed, before they’re surrounded by more minions. Luke tries to fight back, but fails, until Emmy and Grosky show up and we have an epic fight scene between Emmy, Grosky, and the minions. Layton and Nina show up and rescue our heroes and decide to end this once and for all. This review is getting too long, but oh well, Amelia is taken to the Detragan, Descole, and Whistler (who is still alive and one of the villains of the movie) and is about to place a helmet-like thing on her head, until our heroes arrive and confront the villains.

We finally learn the truth behind the entire scheme. One year ago, when Melina was dying, Whistle built the Detragan along with Descole, which is actually a machine that copies someone’s personality and memory, all the way into someone’s brain! The person’s real personality would force the copy away from their minds and Whistler needed a gifted person like Amelia for a brain to accept Melina and the game for eternal life was Descole’s idea. Just as Whistler tries to place Melina’s memories into Luke, it turns out that the key to the Detragan gets stolen by Janice AKA Melina. It turns out that Melina’s memories were actually inside Janice’s brain the whole time, Whistler didn’t need anyone else after all!:

Anyways, it also turns out that Melina was the one who sent in the letter from earlier in order to stop Whistler from his mistakes. Descole kidnaps Melina and the roof shows the same Ambrosian symbol from earlier. Why?: The lines on the symbols actually mean music, revealing two songs that would be needed to raise Ambrosia once again. Our heroes are surrounded by the wolves, preventing them from rescuing Melina and Melina is forced to sing the two songs, “Song of the Stars” and the “Song of the Sea”. It fails and Descole slams the Detragan as seen in “The Phantom of the Opera”, causing the Detragan to turn into a giant mech!:

I’m not joking here, a Detragan turning into a giant mech. Anyways, Melina is in danger and Layton and Luke use the machine they built earlier to try and rescue her and stop Descole. Melina tries to stop Descole, but is pushed over the edge of the mech, dangling dangerously. Luke convinces Layton to rescue her because he wants to be a true gentlemen. Reluctantly, Layton agrees and when Descole tries to kill Luke with a drill-tail, Layton defends Luke and the helicopter explodes!!!!

Holy crap, talk about a complete-sacrifice– I mean, talk about a near-death experience because Layton is still alive and Descole is even surprised as well. This causes an epic sword fight between Layton and Descole like this (please note that this scene is in Japanese instead of English):

Yep, another plot twist that Descole never bothered to hear. There are three songs to raise Ambrosia and that third song is the “Song of the Sun”. After that scene of Ambrosia being raised, Descole fights against Layton for Ambrosia, while damaging the mech, and causing it to go haywire. Descole immediately falls to his death (not really), Layton, Melina, and Luke escape from the mech before it falls into the ocean below. After a emotional flashback of memories between Janice and Melina, Melina regains consciousness and wants her father to put an end to this madness and finally have Melina rest in peace. After Melina fades away, Janice returns back to normal and sings one last song before Whistler is arrested and the Amrbosian mystery is finally solved, while we get credits as seen in the games, and Janice visiting the two main characters in the present.

And so, “The Detective Librarian’s Puzzle-Solving Game” is finally over along with this movie!!!!! All in all, this movie was good. The animation was nice, the CGI effects were really well-crafted, and the songs were beautiful. Although, there are some parts that don’t make sense and some of the characters are easily forgotten, and the English dubbing is a bit off, but overall, I enjoyed this movie. Even if it wasn’t as good as it sounded. Now, be sure to tell me how many puzzles you got right and wrong in my puzzle-solving game in the comments below.

However, you may wonder what happened to Descole, but he’s still alive and he’ll appear later on in the prequel trilogy and in “The Azran Legacy”, his past will finally be revealed. But, that can wait, I’ll be giving “Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva” a 7/10. Since this review was incredibly long, so to speak, let’s just hope we don’t get anymore long reviews like this! I’m The Detective Librarian and see-you-next-time, folks!

-THE END-

Season 2: Review #24: Pixar’s “Inside Out”

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING YOU’RE ABOUT TO SEE MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS!!!!! SO, TURN BACK IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THIS MOVIE YET!!!!!!!!!

-We Now Join Our Regularly Scheduled Review Already in Progress-

Hello, I’m The Detective Librarian and you may remember my “Trailer Reminder” for Pixar’s newest movie, “Inside Out”. I was really excited for this movie and I saw it yesterday and I can assure you, it was really worth waiting for and watching!! Now, you may know that Pixar didn’t have a movie last year but the previous Pixar film was the “Monsters Inc.” prequel, “Monsters University”, and that was good too. Now, many people really enjoyed and loved “Inside Out”, even after it came out on June 19, 2015 in the US and I concur! Now, time to see how “emotional” this movie can be, by taking a look at “Inside Out”.

(Please note that I’ll be doing a spoiler-free review, just like my review of “Jurassic World”, which I’ll be doing for movies that were recently made, from now on) Anyways, the film is about an 11-year old girl named Riley Anderson (played by Kaitlyn Dias), who recently moved from Minnesota, all the way to San Francisco, California, who’s mind is controlled by five different emotions. The emotions are Joy (played by Amy Poehler), Sadness (voiced by Phyllis Smith), Bill Hader as Fear, Lewis Black as Anger, and Mindy Kaling as Disgust. However, Joy and Sadness accidentally get lost outside of Headquarters (where Riley’s emotions control Riley) and have to find a way back before things go from bad to worse. Now, I know what you’re thinking: emotions controlling a human being like a robot being pure, diabolical genius!!!!!!!!! I know, it’s very clever to have Pixar show us what how our minds actually work due to our different emotions, memories, ideas, etc….. Even though we’ve seen other cartoons focus on our mind, but Pixar’s way (in my experience) is a better way of telling us of how things work in our brain.

Now, let’s focus on the plot. The plot is really well organized and the settings and the problems are very realistic. It really does a nice job on how things are different when you move to a new place and you start to change a lot on how you feel and how you have trouble making new friends and getting over change that you don’t want to accept. I particularly like how our mind works in this movie on how our personality is, including having different islands in our head of our interests, personalities, and ways that make who we are. I’m not gonna get too personal about it, but I’ll mention a few like Hockey Island, Family Island, Honesty Island, etc…. I feel like the moral of this movie is that you cannot always be happy all the time and you can’t force other people to be positive all the time and make them a different personality. After all, people having different attitudes and personalities make them just the way they are, unless if it’s a negative way.

Overall, the plot is really nice and the moral is really taught out. Onto the characters, the characters are really enjoyable and my favorites are Anger, Sadness, Disgust, and Fear. Although, I really like Joy and Fear, but I can relate to Anger and Disgust the most because of me getting super ticked over something I don’t like and being disgusted over something gross or being very sensitive over things I don’t find funny or anything else, sorry if I’m getting way too personal here. I really like Anger’s personality and he’s super hilarious, I like how he’s hot-headed and acts like a grouchy, old office worker or a business men who hates his or her job, especially when being played by a famous comedian named Lewis Black. Also, Anger really has a way of being sly, especially when he wants to curse (not for kids) or has a devious idea for Riley. But, I can’t seem to find a least favorite character in this movie, but I enjoyed all the characters in this film.

Let’s remove that and just look the animation on it’s own. It’s really beautiful as always and Pixar still knows how to make good CGI animation, even after it was first established nearly 30 years ago. The music was really nice and the scenes were really memorable and some of them were really emotional and they made me feel like crying, which shows that our emotions are causing us to react to a sad or heartwarming scene. The humor is captured really well and it made me laugh all the way to the very end. Here are some examples (WARNING: MAY SPOIL THE MOVIE FOR YOU):

So, what do you think? Be sure to let me know in the comments section below. All in all, I really enjoyed this movie. The characters were lovable, the animation was great as always, the moral of the story was played out well, the acting was good, the humor made me laugh all the way through, and it’s amazing on how emotional and funny it is. It is probably one of Pixar’s best movies ever made so far and let’s just hope that it’ll be more popular than say “Frozen”. But I digress, I highly recommend you go see this movie, if you’re wondering how our mind actually works and let’s just hope we’re getting a sequel to this movie. I’ll be giving “Inside Out” a 9.5/10 and please note that we’re getting ANOTHER Pixar movie later this year.

That’s right, TWO movies in one year, which is a first for Pixar and that’ll be titled “The Good Dinosaur”, but that’s another story. I’m The Detective Librarian and have a happy day, every peoples!

-THE END-

Season 2: Review #23: “MLP: FIM: Season 5: Episode 10: “Princess Spike”

WARNING: YOU KNOW THE DRILL, TURN BACK IF YOU DON’T WANT ANY SPOILERS REVEALED TO YOU, RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

-We Now Join Our Regularly Scheduled Review Already in Progress-

Hello, I’m The Detective Librarian and I’m not REALLY a big fan of today’s episode! Why?: Because it’s another episode focused on Spike the Dragon, everyone’s least favorite sidekick of “MLP: FIM”! Since he is forgettable, Spike easily gets poorly done episodes written, such as “Just for Sidekicks”, “Inspiration Manifestation”, “Spike At Your Service”, etc….. However, he does have his moments, such as bringing in humor and having cute moments, such as him being a dog in “Equestria Girls” and you know what I mean. As you can tell, the plot for today’s episode is “Princess Spike”, even though it should be “Prince Spike”, since Spike is a male dragon instead of a female dragon and princesses are supposed to be girls, while princes are supposed to be male!!! Now, let’s see how much of a male “princess” can get away with by taking a look at “Princess Spike”, first aired on June 20, 2015 on the Discovery Family Channel.

So, we start off this episode in Canterlot, where a celebration titled “The Grand Equestria Pony Summit”, which is where everypony celebrate how much their cities represent the country of Equestria. Please note that the four alicorn princesses, Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and Twilight Sparkle Sparkle Sparkle are attending this auspicious occasion. Cadence then shows a recently built Friendship Statue made out of crystals from various cities of Equestria, before having Tara Strong (Twilight’s actress) giving out a speech of how she organized the Summit, briefly addressing the delegates, and helping them with their stay/visit. Also, Spike is involved in it in order to cheer his master, Twilight Sparkle, on. After this, Spike goes to the room, where he and Twilight are staying in Canterlot and notices Cadence, who pops up along with you-know-who, looking tired, in which we could clearly tell from the rags under her eyes earlier.

However, she looks more like drunk, rather than tired to me because of the way she said “napkin” and falling asleep on a pile of books. Why?: Because Twilight has been awake for three straight freaking days and needs to take a nap, which looks like she won’t be able to perform her duties of the Summit. Cadence puts Spike in charge of making sure nothing disturbs Twilight. While checking everything in Canterlot with a spyglass, Spike notices a bird on top of Canterlot castle and as you’d expect, he tries to shoo it away in order to have Twilight gain peace and quiet, but it flies to Twilight’s room and lands on top of her horn. After it flies away by going out the window, we hear more noise coming from a game of croquet of some sort. This causes Spike to ask the players to play their game in a different location. Um, why doesn’t he just close the window? Wouldn’t it be able to shut the noise up if he just slammed the window shut?:

SPIKE THE DRAGON: Ugh! Ugh! COME ON!!! CLOSE, WINDOW! CLOSE, CLOSE, CLOSE, CLOSE, CLOSE, CLOSE CLOSE!!!!! *Swing* *Glass Breaking*

TWILIGHT SPARKLE: AH! WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS THAT?!

SPIKE THE DRAGON: Nothing?

TWILIGHT SPARKLE: Spike, what have you done to the window?

SPIKE THE DRAGON: Um. Um..It was……….HIM!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: What? ME?! I DIDN’T DO IT!! SPIKE DID!!!! I SWEAR I’M LYING HERE!!!!!!

TWILIGHT SPARKLE:……………

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN:………………

SPIKE THE DRAGON:……What?

TWILIGHT SPARKLE:

SPIKE THE DRAGON: *Nervous Chuckle* I’m so sued, aren’t I?

TWILIGHT SPARKLE: Yes…Yes you are. I’m telling Celestia about this.

SPIKE THE DRAGON: OH NO!

DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN & TWILIGHT SPARKLE: Oh yes!

Anyways, things get even more noisy when a lumberjack–

MONTY PYTHON (SINGING): I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay–

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Shut up, Monty!

As I was saying, things get even more noisy when a lumberjack–

MONTY PYTHON (SINGING): I’m a lumberjack and–

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: NO, I TOLD YOU! SHUT UP!!!

Things get even more noisy when……………..A…..Lumberjack……………*Phew* Tries cutting down branches of trees called Dragon Sneeze Trees, flowers in which dragons such as Spike are allergic too.–

MONTY PYTHON (SINGING): I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay–

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: THAT’S IT!! I’M OUTTA HERE!!!!!! Bathroom break!–

MONTY PYTHON (SINGING): I’m a lumberjack and I wanna sing–

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Will you shut up?!

-A Few Minutes Later-

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: *Toiler Flushing* *Phew* Glad that’s over– AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

MONTY PYTHON (SINGING): I’m a lumberjack and I’m–

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: SHUT UP!!!! SHUT UP, SHUT, UP!!!!!! EVERY TIME YOU INTERRUPT SOMETHING, IT MAKES ME ANGRY! WILL YOU PLEASE JUST SHUT UP?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!! GEEZ!!!

MONTY PYTHON (SINGING): Ooh! SOOOOOOORRY!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Thank you!

So, Spike begins sneezing as part of his allergic reaction to the plants and asks the lumberjack to stop the noise because of Twilight. The lumberjack agrees to keep it down, but more loud noises occur when a construction worker is using a drill on the road. Spike demands the construction worker to stop the noise and when that’s done, everything in Canterlot is now quiet, which pleases our Sidekick-Dragon-Himself. He goes back outside Twilight’s room and is about to eat a jewel, when an arguing couple from Manehattan shows up. They want to see Twilight to resolve a disagreement about giving out free speeches from each other. Spike tries to ask y’know, but she’s too tired to answer Spike’s question. Since he’s a moron, he lies to the Manehattan couple, saying that Twilight wants them to share their speeches. As you’d expect, the couple falls for Spike’s fib, just because they think that the Princess is right. Well, as long as Mr. Krabs from “Spongebob Squarepants” is involved in this episode, he would always have to say:

After that, Spike gets more demands and he decides to make more lies and become “princess”, even though he’s a male! As most people would say: “It should be prince, NOT PRINCESS!!” Or, let’s be honest here, with that line from “Sonic OVA”:

That sums up the whole episode. “STRANGE, Isn’t It?” He even lies to more demanders like Matilda, Fancy Pants (back from Season 2 and as a background character from seasons 3 to 4), Rare Find, etc….. After that montage, Spike decides to check off the meetings from the check list in order to have Twilight only worry about the reception instead of those meetings. Oh dear, something tells me that this doesn’t look good!!! Anyways, after checking with a pony about the Statue from earlier, he checks on a water pipe the construction worker was working on earlier. The pipe is starting to get worse, but Spike doesn’t bother to check it.

Just then, Cadence encounters Spike and is given the explanation of how Spike made even more of a mess– I mean, made things less stressful for the star of the show with Cadence feeling unsure about this. After that, we partake in another montage of Spike acting like a “princess”, including having a back massage, eating a blue crystal cupcake we saw back in the Season 2 “Spikezilla” episode, “Secret to My Excess”, getting a self-portrait of himself with abs, just like in his fantasy in “A Dog and Pony Show” from Season 1, and eating jewels by the Friendship Statue. Cadence once again pops up and tries to knock some sense into him by explaining that being a princess is hard work and that he might be harming his and Twilight’s relationship. After realizing the error of his ways, things go from bad to worse when a croquet ball from the croquet players from earlier accidentally hit the ball too hard and cause it to hit the Dragon Sneezing Trees, topple down like dominoes, and causing the unsafe water pipe to spew out water and create a GIANT flood of water in the hallway, Cadence and Spike are at. Cadence luckily gets out of the flood and decides to go and shut off the water pipe, while leaving Spike to eliminate the water. Is it just me or are those objectives kind of the same thing? Never mind, let’s just get this over with!

Cadence luckily shuts off the water pipe by using a crystal-like spell that we’ve never seen before. The water is soon eliminated, when Fancy Pants opens the doors leading to the flood of water that flows right at his face. Things go from worse to even more worse when Dragon Sneezing Plants are seen on the floor and cause Spike to sneeze so hard that the Statue collapses and breaks apart. Well, if it were a stone statue, it wouldn’t break so easily due to how hard the sneeze or cough is. Truly, cartoons have unrealistic ways of breaking things! Fancy Pants forms an angry mob to give Twilight a piece of their mind and don’t even listen to Spike, since he made up those demands using her name! Besides, it would’ve been SO MUCH EASIER IF SPIKE JUST TOLD EVERYONE THAT TWILIGHT WAS RESTING, INSTEAD OF MAKING UP A BUNCH OF BIG, FAT, LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean, seriously! What Spike said made me believe everything he was saying! Every time Spike makes a mistake and acts like he learns from it, he ENDS UP MAKING THE SAME MISTAKE OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT, IF YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT SPIKE IS REALLY TRUSTWORTHY AND ABLE TO OVERCOME ANY OBSTACLE OF HIS PAST ERRORS, BY DOING IT ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, I can assure you that THIS class is perfect for idiotic characters like Spike. It’s called “Derpy’s Perfect Math Class” AKA the parody of “Cirno’s Perfect Math Class”!!!! It’s a pretty easy class, it contains Japanese language with so many randomness, so you should go check it out and check out the comparisons between these two! Seriously, do it right now!:

They don’t quite fit to anyone, do they?! BUT I DIGRESS, Fancy Pants leads his angry mob all the way back to Twilight’s room with Spike chasing after them and preventing them from getting inside. Spike locks himself inside the room, preventing the angry-“Walking Dead” zombie-like mob from getting inside and witnessing Twilight finally waking up from her nap. After Fancy Pants goes on a major rant about how things went awry due to Spike’s decisions, Spike admits his mistake to everyone and gives out a speech of how things went into a mess to everyone. As he starts to fix the Friendship Statue that was destroyed earlier, everyone helps him, proving that they forgive him. But, if I were them, I would NOT forgive Spike and ask the writers to completely drop him, since there’s no need of having him around anyway! But, it’s my personal opinion and not yours.

We end this episode with Spike being rewarded with flowers that turn out to be those Dragon Sneezing Plants from earlier and it looks like he’ll destroy the Statue again when he’s about to sneeze, again. But, the episode cuts to the ending credits here!

And that was……….A terrible episode. If you want to have an episode focused on a pointless character, fine. If you want to talk about how hard it is being a celebrity or part of a duty of a country or nation, fine. But, leave Spike out of this because in the end, it doesn’t do a good job with the plot, characters, and use of common sense and honestly, it’s just strange that the writers would consider having Spike call himself a “Princess”, even though girls are supposed to be princesses, while boys are supposed to princes. Although, the episode itself has some parts that were good such as Cadence and Fancy Pants returning, since we haven’t seen Fancy Pants speak in a long time. Besides, Cadence is starting to become a recurring and a sort-of major character to the series. But, it would be interesting to have Shining Armor and Cadence gain more screen time than they used to, especially giving each of them more detail into their past and the rest of their lives like getting a new foal named Skyla, but I digress.

Overall, I’d say this episode is bad and is definitely one of my least favorites throughout the entire season and the series so far. That’s the last time we have Spike gain his own episode. But, at least Pinkie Pie gains her own episode once again, but that’s another story. My final score for “Princess Spike” will be a 3.5/10. I’m The Detective Librarian and– *Crash*

SPIKE THE DRAGON: Hey, Detective! Long time no see!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Oh great, Spike, you’re back! Again!!

SPIKE THE DRAGON: I know, right? We’re gonna have so much fun while Twilight’s away on a business trip and I get to sleep over in your office for a few days!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Oh great! I can hardly wait! |:(

-11:38 PM-

SPIKE THE DRAGON:……..*Sigh* Can I watch TV?

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: No! I’m trying to get some shut eye! So, go away!

SPIKE THE DRAGON: *Humming the “Smile Smile Smile” Song* Oh, sorry!

(Reference to the “M&M’s” Hotel Commercial)

-THE END-

Season 2: Review #22: “Jurassic World”

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING YOU’RE ABOUT TO SEE OR READ MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS!!!!!!!! TURN BACK IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THIS YOU-KNOW-WHAT YET!!!!!!!!!

-We Now Join Our Regularly Scheduled Review Already in Progress-

PREVIOUSLY ON “THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN”:

????: *STOMP* *STOMP* *STOMP*

*”Jurassic Park Theme Playing”*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: A DINOSAUR AKA A T-REX!!!!!!

T-REX: ROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: I’M THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN AND I’LL SEE YOU IN “JURASSIC WORLD”!!!!!!!!!!!! BYE! *BAM!*

LINK TO PREVIOUS REVIEW: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/season-2-review-21-mlp-fim-season-5-the-100th-episode-slice-of-life/

-Now, Back to the Actual Review-

NARRATOR: It all began in 1990, when a novel titled “Jurassic Park”, written by Michael Crichton, went on the bookshelves. As you could probably tell by the title of this book, it’s about dinosaurs in an amusement park about animals with dinosaur DNA, YEARS after dinosaurs were extinct!!! It was created by a greedy business scumbag named John Hammond, who invites a bunch of archaeologists to go on the tour of the park, until their dinosaurs go awry! But, one day, one of the many well-known directors named Steven Spielberg, who directed other movies like “Indiana Jones”, “Jaws”, “E.T.”, etcetera, decided to bring the book into theaters by adapting it into a movie that is considered a classic to this day. However, there were two other sequels that were considered “unsuccessful” as the first movie, until we get a third sequel that occurs WAY AFTER THE FIRST MOVIE!!!! Now, today, our host as always, The Detective Librarian, will review today’s movie! Please give a warm welcome to “The Detective Librarian”!!!!!!!!!!!!

AUDIENCE: *Clapping and Cheering*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Thank you, Narrator! As always, I’m The Detective Librarian and as you can tell, we’ll be doing a sequel to one of the most famous movies of all time, “Jurassic Park”! The film was based off of Michael Crichton’s novel of the same name and was shown in theaters on June 11, 1993. It included many well-known scenes and quotes that make this film very popular as it is today. That includes these:

and Many More!

Later on, we got sequels to this movie that weren’t as good as the original film, until we get the latest installment, “Jurassic World”. It first came out in theaters on June 12, 2015, twenty-two years after the first film was released. However, since this film just recently came out, I’ll be doing a spoiler-free review in order to not give away any MAJOR spoilers to the movie, except for the main plot, characters, etc…. Now, let’s see how much of a sequel this film is. As John Hammond would say: “Welcome to Jurassic World!”

The premise of the film takes place twenty-two years after the first “Jurassic Park” movie. InGen, one of the main companies of the franchise, has created a new dinosaur park called “Jurassic World” and just like the first movie, it has animals turned into dinosaurs with dinosaur DNA. The park is run by Claire Dearing (played by Bryce Dallas Howard), who recently just created a new dinosaur hybrid called the “Indominus Rex”, a dino hybrid of a T-Rex, while the other parts of it are “classified”. You may think that she’s the main hero of the movie, but no, we have Chris Pratt as Owen Grady, a raptor trainer and a staff-member of the park. While Claire’s nephews, Zach Mitchell (played by Nick Robinson) and his younger brother, Gray Mitchell (played by Ty Simpkins) come and visit the park and Claire, things go awry when the Indominus Rex breaks out of it’s cage and other dinosaurs breakout as well, causing havoc to the park. Now, it’s up to Owen and Claire to work together in order to rescue the boys and stop the dinosaur hybrid.

Okay, it may sound dumb to some people and I thought it was gonna be bad too. But, I was actually pretty blown away by it because it captures nostalgia of the characters, locations, and other parts of the first movie. (Please note that it may contain spoilers) It includes Dr. Henry Wu (played by B.D. Wong), Mr. DNA, and having the “Jurassic Park” theme at the beginning of the movie, having the original Jurassic Park be left in ruins, etc…. It’s really good when the writers try to capture some of the parts that have been major to the franchise, even after they haven’t made a “Jurassic Park” movie for so long. However, there are some cliches in it, like the main villain’s motive (I’m not gonna give it away here). I mean, when I first saw that part, this was my reaction:

Exactly, what the crap is up?! Don’t get me wrong, this movie was really tolerable and it’s one of those movies that seem bad to you, but you end up liking it in the end. Like most “Jurassic Park” movies, it usually does its jumpscares that are supposed to give you a fright, keep you interested, and show how dangerous and scary dinosaurs really are. They work with those scares really well and it would’ve been funny if they made a reference to Alan’s nightmare in the previous film, “Jurassic Park III”. Speaking of, here’s how “not scary” Alan’s nightmare is:

Yep, all those jumpscares are much better than THAT scare! I mean, seriously, a raptor looking at you, saying your or someone else’s name when that exact same person looks at the raptor, before waking up after his or her dream!! But I digress, the soundtrack is good and it really is fitting for various scenes of the movie. It does have heartwarming moments like Zach and Gray’s relationship as brothers, it really shows how siblings still care for each other, even if they share a love-hate relationship. The CGI effects on the dinosaurs are really nicely detailed and look more realistic. As for the action, it is really fun to see the action, even if it is over the top at times, but it’s still a fun way to enjoy the movie. The plot, however, is basically a recycled version of the first movie, but with different characters and locations replacing the original characters and places, one way or another.

The new characters are okay, but some of them are good, such as Claire and Owen, since they make a cute couple. You may think that the film is boring without anything else besides action and romance, but it has some goofy parts that make you laugh, since they’re supposed to keep you interested in what you’re witnessing. The length of the movie, however, is very long and it lasts 124 minutes. If you do the math, that is nearly over two hours long!!! But, most PG-13 or R rated movies last two or more hours long, except for other PG-13 or R rated movies like “9”, Uwe Boll’s “Alone in the Dark”, etc… Now, it’s time to go into my final thoughts of this movie.

Overall, this was a good movie, but it takes a while to understand what’s happening, since the plot can get a bit out of hand at times. The characters were average, the effects are cool, the action is well done, but it seemed like a modern reboot of the first “Jurassic Park” movie. I bet if people who saw the three “Jurassic Park” movies saw this film, they would definitely like it or love it. If you’re into “Jurassic Park”, anything dinosaur or Steven Spielberg related, this movie is for you. Also, the nostalgia of the first movie was captured well, so that’s another point in its favor. I would improve the movie by improving the plot, but other than that, there’s nothing else that needs to be changed. I’ll be giving “Jurassic World” a 7.5/10.

And that’s my review, I hope you enjoyed it and as always, I’m The Detective Librarian and I’ll see you soon with more reviews later this summer!–

T-REX: ROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Oh god, please have mercy on me!!!– *STOMP!*

-THE END-

Season 2: Review #21: “MLP: FIM: Season 5: The 100th Episode: “Slice of Life”

Now, before we start today’s review, I would like to say that I am very sorry for the delay of reviewing this episode! It was supposed to come out on the day it aired, Saturday, June 13, 2015. But, I didn’t have enough time to do that and my family and I just went on vacation for a few days and I just got back from my vacation. Now, I’ll try my best to catch up on the schedule of review-making and other posts. Okay, update over, now onto the REAL review!

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS AND PLEASE TURN BACK IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THIS EPISODE YET!!!!!!!!!

-We Now Join Our Regularly Scheduled Review Already in Progress-

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ANNOUNCER: THE 100TH EPISODE OF “MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC” HAS ARRIVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW, IT’S A VERY EXCITING EPISODE AND THE HOST OF OUR SHOW WILL EXPLAIN WHY IT’S SO SPECIAL!!! HERE HE IS NOW, PLEASE GIVE A WARM WELCOME TO “THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AUDIENCE: *Clapping and Cheering*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Thank you, announcer! Hello, I’m The Detective Librarian and as you can tell, today’s episode of “MLP: FIM” is the 100th episode. OMG, the show has been on for nearly five years now and it just gained a hundred episodes!!!! Why is it so special: Because it focuses on the background characters that have gone extremely popular in the brony fandom, including Derpy Hooves, Dr. Hooves, Vinyl Scratch AKA DJ-Pon3, Octavia Melody, Lyra and Bon-Bon, etc…… It first aired on June 13, 2015 on the Discover Family Channel and I can assure you, it’s a really good episode. Now, let’s see how good this 100th episode is, by diving right into “Slice of Life”.

The episode starts off at Matilda and Cranky Doodle Donkey (two donkeys from the Season 2 episode, “A Friend in Deed”, the episode with the “Smile Smile Smile” song) in their house looking at photos of them at various locations at a photo book, such as Twilight’s coronation from “Magical Mystery Cure”, them at Manehattan (the Equestria version of Manhattan, New York), celebrating the holidays, etc…. Also, Cranky and Matilda are planning to get married tomorrow and they realize that the invitations to their wedding are sent incorrectly, it’s even sent to the princesses of Equestria and everyone in town. Because of the mix-up, they’ll have to push back the wedding to today. Okay, I’m not an expert here, but I’m pretty sure that’s impossible. I mean, think about it! If a wedding or a party has invitations sent the wrong way, they’ll have to postpone the wedding for a few days. Besides, I’ve never even heard of someone who has to push back a wedding or celebration to today after invitations get sent, incorrectly.

Anyways, Cranky goes to the post office to go to complain to Derpy, who works here, that she accidentally sent in the wrong date on the invitations to everyone in Ponyville. Because she loves muffins so much, she asks Cranky for a muffin. While Twilight Sparkle Sparkle Sparkle is racing in town, Derpy talks about her problem to Doctor Hooves, still feeling guilty over her mistake she made. Since Doctor Hooves is the ponified version of Doctor Who and is a time-traveler, he rambles on about a scientific theory of time-travel, while making a reference to “It’s About Time” from Season 2 and explaining to Derpy about his flameless fireworks, which he hasn’t quite figured our on how they actually work. Derpy, once again, explains her problem because Doctor wasn’t really paying attention to her. Here, we get a pretty silly catchphrase that makes me feel like he’s now a ponified version of Doc Brown from “Back to the Future”. It goes like this:

DOCTOR HOOVES: “Great whickering stallions!”

Please note that he uses this quote, multiple times throughout the episode, which can get annoying from time to time. Well, at least they didn’t have Christopher Lloyd play the Doctor in this episode or in the “Doctor Who” series, since “Doctor Who” is a British TV show on BBC. But I digress, Doctor Hooves rushes to the Carousel Boutique, where Rarity works at, to get his suit tailored for the wedding, only to discover that Rarity is not at the Boutique. He comes across Vinyl, who is listening to her headphones, and tries to explain the situation, but Vinyl is too busy listening to her music and leads him to the bowling alley in Ponyville. Doctor encounters three bowling dudes with suits on and asks them to tailor his suit ASAP.

The three bowling guys challenge the Doctor in a game of bowling and if he wins, they alter his seat for him. But, get a load of this, Doctor gets confused by bowling, until he is explained to do what normal people do when they have a game of bowling, throw the ball into the bowling pins in order to get either a strike, spare, or split. Meanwhile, the Mane Six gather around, while the other background characters/residents wonder why the main characters of the show are busy discussing something. Even the CMC believe it’s either a monster attack or a friendship problem. As Matilda pops up, a panda-like wasp creature called the Bug Bear (I’m gonna call it the Killer Wasp Bear) shows up and the Mane Six battle against it, while Matilda rushes to get the wedding arranged today and Derpy discussing the news to Lily Flower (another background character) and the rest of her friends.

As you’d expect, Lily Flower and her friends are horrified over the decision. Seriously, this is the 2nd time I’ve seen Lily faint to the ground and being melodramatic. Do you really think she does every time something terrible happens?:

LILY FLOWER: OH NO! “SONIC BOOM: FIRE & ICE” WAS JUST ANNOUNCED!!!!! BUT, THE “SONIC BOOM” GAMES WERE EXTREMELY AWFUL AND SEGA IS SO SUED FOR THIS ONE!!!!!! Ahhhhhhh…. *Faint*

Or how about when a character dies, like in movies or TV shows?:

LILY FLOWER: OH NO, THIS IS A DISASTER!!!!!! MUFASA FROM “THE LION KING” DIED AND HE WAS MY FAVORITE!!!! IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!!!! RUN, HIDE YOUR CHILDREN, PETS, AND EVERYTHING ELSE!!!! Ahhhh…… *Faint*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN:….Here, have a hug.

LILY FLOWER: Okay!

Anyways, at the town hall, Lyra and Bon-Bon are making decorations for the wedding. After she heard the news about the Killer Wasp Bear’s attack in Ponyville, Bon-Bon reveals that she’s a secret agent working for an Secret Anti-Monster Agency in Canterlot, until the monster disappeared from Tartarus a few years ago. In other words, the agency was shattered as a result and Bon-Bon was supposed to go undercover to try and capture the monster. As you could imagine, Lyra is shocked that their entire friendship in the show and the brony fandom was a set-up, even when Bon-Bon leaves the town hall to fight the Killer Wasp Bear. Back at the bowling alley, Derpy interrupts the game, by explaining to the Doctor that they’ll use the flameless fireworks from earlier for the wedding. He goes after Derpy to try to warn her about the flameless fireworks, while Matilda is at the spa with the dragon from the pilot episode named Steven Magnet.

They discuss about their lives and how Cranky saved Steven’s life, until he causes Matilda’s stress to get even more worse when he asks her if everyone cares about the marriage and saying that the wedding is everything. Meanwhile, we get to see Vinyl and Octavia Melody, the cello player, together in their house that is like “The Odd Couple”, I guess. The scene goes something like this:

Yep, there’s the Twilicane from “Princess Twilight Sparkle” back in Season 4 and Gummy unexpectedly speaks in his head for the first time. Bizarre, right? So, everyone, except for the Mane Six, unrealistically crash inside the wedding, unscathed. That includes Celestia and Luna arguing for the first time, Shining Armor crying like a baby (Apparently, he usually cries at weddings, especially after a wedding starts, which tells me that he’s now haunted by the events of “A Canterlot Wedding”) with Cadence comforting him, and Bon-Bon announcing that the monster has been defeated, pleasing everyone. Before we continue, I’m gonna ask Shining Armor if he really is haunted by his past. *Cell Phone Ringing*

SHINING ARMOR: Hello, this is Shining Armor, Captain of the Royal Guard, ruler of The Crystal Empire, and sister of Princess Twilight Sparkle, how may I help you?

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Yeah, um? Shining, this is The Detective Librarian speaking, calling you about a question I might want to ask you.

SHINING ARMOR: Sure, what’s up?

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Are you really haunted by “A Canterlot Wedding”, like I am?

SHINING ARMOR: How did you know that?

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: What do you think?

SHINING ARMOR:..Oh…OH! THAT’S RIGHT, IN THE LATEST EPISODE, “SLICE OF LIFE”!!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: If you’re now married and an adult, why do you sob like a child at weddings, right before a wedding begins?!

SHINING ARMOR: I’m sorry, I can’t help it and I just can’t escape from my past!!! Even after we share this rivalry with each other, ever since you first saw me at “A Canterlot Wedding” and when you reviewed it!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: I’d hate to break it to you, Shining, but you just don’t know when to grow up and act your age! Many characters I know are adults or teenagers and act childish like Frankie Heck from “The Middle”, Sonic and Knuckles from “Sonic the Hedgehog”, Prince Blueblood, and other characters we don’t need to mention.

SHINING ARMOR: I DO KNOW HOW TO ACT MATURE!!!!! OKAY!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Is that so?! THEN PROVE IT!!!!!

SHINING ARMOR: I DID PROVE IT IN VARIOUS OTHER EPISODES!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Did not!

SHINING ARMOR: Did too!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Did not!

SHINING ARMOR: Did too!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Did not!

SHINING ARMOR: Did too!

-12 Days of Arguing Later-

SHINING ARMOR: *Yawn* Did too!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: DID NOT!!–

SCRIPT PERSON: HEY! HEY! HEY! SHUT UP! Not in-front of the kids, Detective! This review is going on far too long now! You guys have been acting childish, ever since the day you two met!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN:….Holy crap, you’re right! I lost my freaking mind there for a second!

SHINING ARMOR: *Gasp* You’re right! Sorry, Detective.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Sorry, Shining Armor. *Yawn* Man, am I tired! Alright, um. Back to the episode.

So, Lyra and Bon-Bon restore their friendship, while Doctor Hooves arrives at the wedding right on time with an extremely long scarf, and Steven gives Cranky a new toupee, after Cranky loses his old one. Mayor Mare, the mayor of Ponyville, gives out a speech of Cranky and Matilda’s relationship and how ponies play important roles in their own stories, while we see Celestia and Luna settle their argument, Shining and Cadence holding each other, a changeling appearing in the background (possible foreshadowing of Chrysalis returning), etc….. The episode ends with Matilda and Cranky getting married, the flameless fireworks going off due to the power of love (like a Disney movie, as usual), and the Mane Six being proud of living in Ponyville in one of the best shows of all time, “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”.

And that’s the 100th episode. Boy, was it a good one! This episode, however, went by really quickly and has completely out of nowhere subplots, but overall, this episode was really enjoyable. I feel like Derpy and Doctor Hooves are the main characters, mainly because Derpy tries to solve her mix-up with the invitations, while Doctor tries to help Derpy and prepare for the wedding as well. But, I feel like he needs to be voiced by someone who played the Doctor in the actual “Doctor Who” series, like Matt Smith, David Tennant, or anyone else, instead of acting like Doc Brown (played by Christopher Lloyd).

However, Vinyl, once again, says nothing and it would be quite interesting to see Vinyl speak, maybe she has either autism or doesn’t have the ability to talk to others. I’m glad Shining Armor and Cadence return because we haven’t seen these two together in a while now, since they appeared in Season 4 separately. It’s quite interesting to see Celestia and Luna argue, even after Luna was corrupted into Nightmare Moon. All in all, I’d say this episode is a good one and it has some parts that are a hit or miss, but it’s still not bad and it’s a tolerable watch. Since a changeling was seen at the wedding, it makes me feel like Chrysalis is returning with her changelings to get revenge on our heroes once again. Overall, this episode deserves an 8.5/10.– *Growling*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: What was that? *Growling*

????: *STOMP* *STOMP* *STOMP*

*”Jurassic Park Theme Playing”*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Oh no, it CAN’T BE! A DINOSAUR AKA A T-REX!!!!!!!!!

T-REX: ROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: HOLY CRAP, IT’S AN ACTUAL T-REX!!!! I’M THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN AND I’LL SEE YOU IN “JURASSIC WORLD”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BYE! *BAM!*

T-REX: ROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Stomping*

-THE END-

60th Review Special/Season 2: Review #20: “My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks”

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SPOILERS AND TURN BACK IF YOU DON’T– You get the picture.

-We Now Join Our Regularly Scheduled Review Already in Progress-

Hello, I’m The Detective Librarian and today, we’ve reached our 60th review!

CROWD: HOORAY!!!!!!!!!

Now, in order to celebrate this wonderful event, we’re going to take a look at “Jurassic World”– Uh, I mean, the sequel to “Equestria Girls”. Yes, when this film was first announced and because of many bronies and pegasisters being upset over the first “Equestria Girls” movie, they were all like:

Or…

Or…..

Or….

However, when the film came out in select theaters for a limited time on September 27, 2014, they all changed their minds and thought this film was MUCH better than the previous film and I concur. As I just said, “Rainbow Rocks” was first released in theaters for a limited time on September 27, before coming out on DVD and Blu-Ray on October 28, 2014. Now, it’s time to find out how “superior” this film is than the previous one, this is “Rainbow Rocks”.

The film starts off in the human world, where three mysterious teenage girls are using red crystals on their necks with green clouds coming from arguing people inside a restaurant. The girls begin to argue about how the energy in the human world isn’t the same as back in Equestria, until a giant explosion of light is heard outside. The girls rush out, only to discover the rainbow-tornado the humanized version of the Mane Six are using to defeat Sunset Shimmer’s Satan-like monster form. In other words, the prologue of this movie takes place during the events of the first “Equestria Girls” movie. They start to feel that the energy that they’re currently feeling is actually Equestrian magic and come up with a diabolical plan to be adored by all human beings, including Canterlot High. After this, the opening titles roll and then cuts to Canterlot High at the gymnasium, where the students are making banners for their upcoming “Canterlot High Musical Showcase”, it’s like a concert or a talent show, I guess.

As the humanized versions of the CMC are making banners as well, Sunset Shimmer shows up, who is still reformed after the events of the previous film. She joins the other “Mane” characters (Ba-Dum-Tsh), who are ALSO part of making the banners. Just then, Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna (or the “humanized” versions of the Two Sister Princesses, if you will) show up and announce that they’re pleased on how their students are partaking in their upcoming Musical Showcase, before saying that it will be exciting as the Fall Formal. Sunset, however, is still humiliated, after being so cold and cruel-hearted. She talks about her past mistakes with the rest of our heroes at the band room, who are now a five-member rock band called “The Rainbooms”. Am I the only one who feels like that this is a military nickname, something you would see in “Thunderbirds”, or a nickname of a sonic rainboom? Ah, oh well, I guess it’s just like the Mane Six spreading the rainbow of friendship like an actual “BOOM”!

*KA-BOOM!*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: *Coughing* Well, THAT came out of nowhere!!! I wonder who set off an explosion in my office.

THE REVIEW MASTER: That, would be me.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: THE REVIEW MASTER?! NOT YOU AGAIN!!!!

THE REVIEW MASTER: Hehehehehehe……

Anyways, our heroes mention that they forgave Sunset for her past *ahem* “boo-boo’s” (according to Rarity), before singing our (official) first song of the movie, “Better Than Ever”, while their heads have pony-ears, wings, and longer hair. They won’t last forever, however, when the song stops and the things I mentioned earlier go away, before Flash Sentry pops up because of the band’s singing. We get a little hint from him about Twilight, since they shared a romantic interest in each other, since the last movie. 😡 Just then, an announcement is made that Sunset has to show some new students around the school. (Obvious foreshadowing) Sunset meets the new students, which are the three girls we saw in the very beginning. They’re called the “Dazzlings” and they’re names are Adagio, Aria, and Sonata.

During the tour, Sunset notices the mysterious red crystals the Dazzlings have and as she tries to touch them, Adagio is offended and prevents Sunset from trying to touch them. At the cafeteria, Sunset explains the situation about how suspicious the Dazzlings are, before they are interrupted by (speak of the devil) the Dazzlings and begin singing another song called “Battle of the Bands”. This causes the entire school to create tension, rivalries, and competitiveness and to transform the Musical Session into a “Battle of the Bands”, except for the Mane Six. They begin to realize that the Dazzlings are using dark magic to create disharmony and try to explain it to the humanized Celestia and Luna, only to discover that they’ve been infected by the Dazzlings’ spell as well. They even decide that the Dazzlings are harmless/innocent and congratulate the villains’ idea about having a Battle of the Bands, leaving our heroes helpless.

Y’know, the glowing green eyes on Celestia and Luna, indicating that they’re under the villains’ spell, really remind me of the signs of the changelings brainwashing their victims, while draining their love. After all, it does make them share something in common. Imagine if the Dazzlings and changelings team up to dominate Equestria, that would be kinda cool actually, even though we’ve seen Discord team up with Tirek, but we need more villains teaming up with each other. But I digress, our heroes decide the only way to receive help is by contacting Princess Twilight Sparkle Sparkle Sparkle by writing a letter to Princess Celestia, back in Equestria with a magic book. Please note that when a letter is written in the book, it appears in Celestia’s or Twilight’s library. Man, I wish I had a book like that I can write a letter like this.:

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: “Dear, Princess Celestia,

I came here to tell you that you should really check out my latest and first fan-fiction of “MLP: FIM” called “Shining Armor & the Shadow Kingdom”! So far, it has received positive reviews and it makes me want to do more fan-fics on my blog. Hope you enjoy it!”

Sincerely, The Detective Librarian.

P.S. Be sure to sue HIT Entertainment for making new “Thomas” characters, just for merchandising!

Okay, Sunset writes her letter to Celestia, which leads us into Twilight’s real world and to her castle that was introduced in “Twilight’s Kingdom” in Season 4. The (ponified) Mane Six and Spike are busy in the throne room doing whatever they want, until a stallion shows up with a bunch of books, including a vibrating one that includes the letter Sunset Shimmer wrote from the human world. After she reads the letter, we find out that the Dazzlings are actually Sirens from Equestria. Years ago, the Sirens/Dazzlings were dangerous creatures that sang songs that caused ponies to have negativity, in order to gain more energy to sing more beautiful and powerful than ever before. They were about to (as M. Bison would say):

Dominate Equestria, Starswirl the Bearded sent them into another world, reassuring that they won’t use their magic there. That isn’t good because the villains are already using their magic and it’s right were the human world is. Twilight realizes that she has to get to the human world, but it’s now impossible, seeing that the Mirror at The Crystal Empire AKA the portal that leads to the human world is sealed shut. After Pinkie Pie explains that the book with letters can cause the portal to open, Twilight begins to build another portal leading to the human world, by using mechanical parts. Because having more than two members of the you-know-whos will upset the balance between the two worlds, Twilight and Spike go to the human world, again. Twilight, Spike, and the humanized Mane Six reunite, along with Sunset and come up with a plan to stop the Dazzlings at the school. After bumping into Flash Sentry again, our heroes arrive at the gym and try to perform their friendship spell to stop the villains, but, surprisingly, nothing happens.

When the Mane Six feel humiliated, the Dazzlings watch them and decide to keep an eye on them, due to having no effect on their hypnotic spell. Meanwhile, our heroes figure out that they have to perform a song to use their magic to defeat the Dazzlings and they decide to have Twilight has the lead singer of the Rainbooms. That night, Pinkie proposes a slumber party for the gang, along with scenes of Applejack and Rainbow Dash’s rivalry, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Sunset taking a selfie on their cell phone, with Spike interrupting them, etc…. Later that night, Twilight sneaks into the kitchen to think of a song to break the villains’ spell, when Sunset Shimmer shows up to get a snack/whipped cream. They discuss over the problems they face, along with getting a joke of a humanized version of Maud Pie, Pinkie’s sister, getting something for her pet rock, Boulder, to eat.

The next morning, our heroes practice for their counterattack song at AJ’s home, but that fails too. Because of it, they decide to perform other songs to make their plan succeed and to keep their magic safe and as a secret. When the Battle of the Bands finally comes, the humanized versions of Snips and Snails perform a poorly done (but somehow, a silly) rap song and are disqualified as a result. After this, the Rainbooms perform their song, “Shake Your Tail”, while being sabotaged by Photo Finish, a German speaking pony as seen in “Green Isn’t Your Color” from Season 1, and her band by using magnets to change Rarity’s movement, along with Fluttershy having a spotlight hover over her due to Snips and Snails, and we also get all sorts of accidents or sabotage, if you prefer, on our heroes. However, they surprisingly continue through the competition.

Then, we get (probably) one of the most harsh scenes ever put in any episode/movie in the series. The scene goes like this.:

Does this scene look familiar? Well, it’s because it reminds me of–

SHINING ARMOR: Me being so cruel to my little sister, Twiley, at my own wedding!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: God, dang it, Shining Armor! How did you know what I was going to say?!

SHINING ARMOR: Because you keep mentioning it multiple times, ever since you first reviewed “A Canterlot Wedding” last season! After all, you’re still holding a grudge against me for what I did.

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Well, sort-of, except that you do mean well and actually apologized to Twilight off-screen. Even though fans show your apology to Twilight in their perspective, not the writers’!

SHINING ARMOR: I mean, you even formed an angry mob to track me down at the end of the review and said that I deserved to be hated, mistreated, and get killed or even worse!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Well, it still makes me mad one way or another, but this the only face I can make at Flash Sentry and how harsh you were and the rest of Twilght’s friends were.:

http://tinesaeriel.deviantart.com/art/The-Thing-You-All-Wanted-to-See-485204463

SHINING ARMOR: HOLY CRAP! THAT IS SO INTIMIDATING!!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: I know! Duck the Great Western Engine from “Thomas the Tank Engine” becoming a bad-guy in Tines Sensahthe’s “Tobias and the Half-Pariah” and having a demon-possessed face that can be funny and creepy in specific ways.

SHINING ARMOR: Don’t you PLEASE EVER show that face to me EVER AGAIN, DETECTIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Alright, alright. Besides, we’ve got a review to go through, anyway! So, continue.

So, Twilight gets upset over Flash Sentry’s insult and you can probably tell that is WAY TOO HARSH! Meanwhile, Sunset is alone in a dark hallway, when the Dazzlings show up. Sunset confronts the villains over their plans, before being played by the villains with her emotions, causing her to be pointless. Later, in the Dazzlings’ song, “Under Our Spell”, we partake in more montages of each band or competitor being humiliated/losing. After Trixie’s band plays “Tricks Up My Sleeve”, the Rainbooms are next up, even though they haven’t finished their song yet. RD takes over and starts to show off as usual in “As Awesome As I Want to Be” and is about to transform into her pony form, when Sunset, idiotically, stops RD.

This causes the crowd to get convinced that Sunset still hasn’t changed one bit, which is false. Well, at least we had Discord being evil, even though he gets reformed!! Now, the Rainbooms are in the final stage of the Battle of the Bands, causing Trixie to be enraged, now that she can’t compete in the final round. The Dazzlings use her to eliminate our heroes, when the Rainbooms are checking their microphone. She traps them by setting off a trap door on the stage, causing them (except for Spike) to fall down bellow. And instead of being trapped as well, Spike rushes to go get help. That night, Trixie’s band performs on stage and the Mane Five begin to argue below the stage.

Sunset notices that it’s causing the Dazzlings to feed off of the Mane Five’s negativity and puts an end to the bitter argument. She explains that their magic of friendship is being drained by the villains and our heroes settle their argument and decide to figure out a way to escape and stop the villains. Then, Spike shows up with Vinyl Scratch AKA DJ-Pon3 (let’s call her Vinyl Scratch), probably one of the most popular background characters of the show, to save our heroes, who has her headphones protecting her from the Dazzlings’ evil magic. As the Dazzlings arrive on stage, they perform their final song and show images of their true forms as Sirens. Meanwhile, the Rainbooms use Vinyl’s convertible car to transform into a DJ station (like a Transformer, I guess) to use their music against the Dazzlings. It looks like our heroes will win, until the Dazzlings defeat them, sadly.

Sunset Shimmer ends up being the hero of the movie. Why?: She continues the song, transforms into her pony-form, and helps our heroes restore harmony at Canterlot High, and defeat the villains. Way to go, Sunset Shimmer, WOO!!!! Now that the Dazzlings’ crystals are destroyed, they can’t sing anymore and end up being humiliated on-stage themselves by the crowd, booing at them. Now that everything’s back to normal, Flash is turned back to normal as well and restores his and Twilight’s relationship, Trixie’s still her boastful-self, Twilight goes back home to Equestria, Sunset’s now the lead singer of the Rainbooms and is able to play the guitar, while writing a letter to Twilight. The movie ends with one last song during the ending credits with the song, “Shine Like Rainbows”, is playing in the background and we get ANOTHER SHOCKING SCENE! IT’S REVEALED THAT THERE’S ANOTHER HUMAN TWILIGHT AND A DOG-VERSION OF SPIKE, THAT SHOWS TWILIGHT’S NERDY SIDE! So, go ahead, play it!:

Well, i bet a lot of you, who saw that scene really went like this:

That was the biggest shock of all time!

So that’s the end of “Rainbow Rocks”. All I can is I’m really impressed with this movie. It is really good, the plot was well-done, the characters were good, the Dazzlings were very good villains, the animation was great as always, and I’m glad Vinyl was important to the plot because she’s a really great background character. Well, at least we’ll see her again in the 100th episode, “Slice of Life”, which I’ll be doing after this review. As for Sunset Shimmer herself, I really liked her role in the story. Also, it’s a really nice change of pace to have a different member of the Mane Six be the main protagonist of the movie, instead of the main character herself, Twilight Sparkle. Besides, we’ve had Twilight as the main hero of season premieres and finales of the series so many times in a row, even though we sometimes have some of the characters play important roles in an episode or a movie or so.

Well, let’s remove that for a second and just look at the songs on their own. The songs are really catchy and they’re really fun to listen to, even “Welcome to the Show”, “Under Our Spell”, “Rainbow Rocks”, etc…. As you can tell, we’re actually gonna get a third “Equestria Girls” movie called “Friendship Games”. Just wait until they make a 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 80th “Equestria Girls” movie! There are a few things that needed to be improved, such as Spike being a pointless character as always, making Celestia and Luna more smart, and Flash apologizing to Twilight. But, I’m gonna let that pass and just say my last thoughts on this movie. Overall, this film is definitely better than the previous one, even if it wasn’t really necessary and also, it’s a nice change of pace to have Twilight tell the villains’ backstory, instead of Celestia, Luna, or anyone else, so that’s another point in return.

Now that’s settled, I’m going to give “Rainbow Rocks” an 8/10, but my final score will be slightly higher, making it an 8.5/10. Now, I can assure you that the 100th episode, tomorrow, will be absolutely worth looking forward to because it focuses on the background characters! But that’s another story, I’m The Detective Librarian and 100th episode, here we come!

P.S. Imagine if songs like these went into the actual Battle of the Bands. Be sure to tell me if you think that they’re perfect for the competition, even if some aren’t rock songs:

-THE END-